[FRIAM] AI

Marcus Daniels marcus at snoutfarm.com
Fri Jun 20 14:28:15 EDT 2025


Dave writes:

< It is extremely difficult to compare something like FLOPS for the brain, but best estimates suggest an average of 43 teraFLOPS, and up to 430 teraFLOPS for peak situations. Computers are capable of 1.1 exaFLOPS. But the brain uses 20 watts of power and the computer megawatts. >

A single DGX H100 node can do a 60-page technical paper review in 10 seconds. 

< The brain could receive 5 trillion discrete signals per second, but “pre-processing” reduces that to between 50 (average) and 500 million (peak) signals per second. >

A single DGX H100 has 7.2 TB/sec aggregate bandwidth. 

There is nothing like the human peripheral nervous system for AI, yet.

Marcus 


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