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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 Sept 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,”Play from 51:27Report a misattribution
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