Processing power of various entities, by number of “neurons”
Sea sponge (640 million years ago): 0 // Adaline (1960): 1 // SNARC (1951): 40
Roundworm (400 million years ago): 302 // LeNet-5 (1998): 8,094 // Fukushima’s Neocognitron (1980): 11,064
Fruit fly (120 million years ago): 100,000 // AlexNet (2012): 650,000
Cockroach (200 million years ago): 1 million // COTS HPC system (2013): 1.2 million // Digital reasoning neural network (2015): 8+ million
Rat (5–6 million years ago): 200 million
Homo sapiens (315,000 years ago): 86 billion
Elephant (4 million years ago): 257 billion
Debut: Sep 2008 | Status: Ongoing | Appearances in print: 172
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