Do you think a supercomputer that can beat us in chess or go is that great compared to us? Not a chance. The human brain blows away any computer so far created. AI development has a serious long way to go before it can rival our brain power.

The human brain has over [100 trillion synapses](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-trillion-connections/) created from about 100 billion neurons, and it all runs on a mere 20 watts.

<center><img src="https://i.imgur.com/7tMh8tb.jpg" /><br/><em><sub><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron#/media/File:Complete_neuron_cell_diagram_en.svg">Source</a></sub></em></center>

In a video called *"Why Tomorrow Won't Look Like Today: Things that Will Blow Your Mind"* from 2014, a test was done with the lowest powered supercomputer they could use. It had over 1.5 million processors, with 6.3 billion threads, and took 8 million watts, and ran 1500 times slower than a human brain.

Supercomputers take hundreds of times more power, yet operate 1500 times slower! That's 400,000 times more power required than the human brain, and it doesn't cut it!

Using this base, to actually process 1 second in real-time as a world simulation for a supercomputer, would require 12 billion watts. That's an enormous 600,000,000 times more power required just to run 1 second like us. Ha! In your face AI! You suck!

Given that, I think it's safe to assume there won't be an AI uprising anytime soon.

The human brain is quite a treasure. The greatest gift we have. The most complex thing nature has created so far.

It's sad that many take this gift for granted and put it in jeopardy with physical trauma through contact "sporting" activities. The greatest thing in the universe, so precious, yet treated so poorly, undervalued by so many...

Check out the video for more tidbits. It's an hour long though.

# Why Tomorrow Won't Look Like Today: Things that Will Blow Your Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fJOtAzICzw

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