Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: On average, the human brain contains about 100 billion neurons and many > more neuroglia which serve to support and protect the neurons. Each neuron > may be connected to up to 10,000 other neurons, passing signals to each > other via as many as 1,000 trillion synapses.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01703#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20the%20human%20brain,many%20as%201%2C000%20trillion%20synapses > . I found different estimates of this in various different places. Your source is somewhat higher than most. I think most say ~86 billion neurons and ~7,000 synapse connections. I do not know enough about ANN to guess how many synthetic synapse connections there are from each artificial neuron to the others. I guess it is not one bit per connection (32). A 32-bit floating point number is 10^-101 to 10^90, with precision of 7 decimal digits. That's a lotta values! I do not know how the connections are made to other neurons. It is not a physical connection the way it is in the brain. I suppose the longer you run the training, the more each artificial neuron is tweaked up or down in value. I have read about these things for many years, but I have only surface knowledge of how they work. Okay I probably know more than Members of Congress, most newspaper reporters, or the linguist Noam Chomsky, who spouts off about ChatGPT and many other subjects he does not understand.
