About whether a 20-watt human brain compares poorly to large AI models.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether a 20-watt human brain compares poorly to large AI models.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
And yet that 20w brain can make me a sandwich and bring it to me, while state of the art AI models will fail that task.
Until we get major advances in robotics and models designed to control them, true AGI will be nowhere near.