
555. New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
Freakonomics Radio
The Cost of Training AI Systems Equivalent to the Human Brain
To achieve powerful AI systems that can automate most tasks, we need to train AI systems as powerful as the human brain. However, current AI is not equivalent to the human brain due to factors such as nodes, processing speed, and memory size. In 2020, Kotro concluded that building an AI model with the capacity of a human brain was theoretically possible but expensive. At that time, the cost of training such a system exceeded the world's total money by a large margin. Nevertheless, with the advancement of technology, computers are becoming cheaper and AI algorithms are becoming more efficient.
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