ClaimsRay Kurzweil

“For one thing, they can be run on a computational substrate that is already more than ten million times faster than neural circuitry.”

Ray Kurzweil, essay author January 2001 The Law of Accelerating Returns (Kurzweil Library) archived copy

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As of 2001, computational substrates are already more than ten million times faster than neural circuitry.

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Ray Kurzweil, “As of 2001, computational substrates are already more than ten million times faster than neural circuitry.” (said January 2001). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_cef70d82fef5, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_cef70d82fef5

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