Discussions with Dr. Paul Christiano, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Abstract

Open Philanthropy reached out to Dr. Paul Christiano of OpenAI as part of its investigation of what we can learn from the brain about the computational power (“compute”) sufficient to match human-level task performance. The discussions focused on compute estimates based on communication in the brain, and on the applicability of Landauer’s principle to the brain’s information-processing.