4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker says the human brain is more parallel than current machine-learning systems, while having less serial computational depth.

Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“The amount the brain is sort of more parallel than current ML systems,”
“like there's just more computations happening in parallel,”
“but the serial depth is lower,”
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