I noted here recently that the heart has neurons which send more information to the brain than they get back. My wife recently noted that the gut has neurons as well. Here’s the breakdown:
Brain: 100 billion neurons
Gut: 500 million neurons (0.5% of the brain)
Heart: 40,000 in the heart, but they send more data to the brain than the brain sends back. (.00004% of the brain)
AI: Researchers now have AI with 1 billion neuron equivalents: about 1% of your brain. There has been talk on the Internet that when they hit 10 billion, AI may be able to write rough drafts of fiction. It’s already written passable imitation Kafka. One company is hoping to offer writers an AI assistant for $300 a month in a few years.
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Chimpanzee and gorilla brains have, respectively 28 billion and 33 billion neurons. So even at 10 billion, a room full of AI will take three times as long to produce the complete works of William Shakespeare as a room full of monkeys.