6.034 Artificial Intelligence - Recitations, fall 2004 online slides on learning

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Power in Numbers

Each neuron is not extremely powerful by itself

Neuron switching time is ~ $.001$ second

Each message 100,000 times slower than a computer switch

10 billion - 1 trillion neurons

Each neuron has 1,000 - 100,000 connections

Computational neural networks are inspired by biology, but do not exactly imitate biology