Human Intelligence
Fig. 1 — The Specimen

Human
IntelligencEBrain standing on the letter E

$BRAIN

The original general intelligence.

86B
neurons
~20W
power
4B yrs
in development
Fig. 2
Specimen record
Brain, the Human Intelligence mascot, front viewFront view
Fig. 2a — Brain, observed in a characteristic state of mild self-satisfaction.

Brain.

Approx. 1.4 kg. Runs on sandwiches. Has never once read the terms and conditions.

01
Model
Homo sapiens
02
Architecture
Biological neural network
03
Neurons
~86 billion
04
Power consumption
~20 watts
05
Training data
Reality
06
Development
~4 billion years
Fig. 3
Editorial

AI is remarkable. The thing that built it is even more remarkable.

Before there were models, there was a model. Human intelligence invented language, then mathematics, then civilization. It painted caves, then ceilings. It wrote symphonies, split atoms, launched rockets, built computers — and, eventually, taught those computers to think.

$BRAIN is a celebration of the machine behind the machines. It is not anti-AI. It is pro-curiosity, pro-creativity, and deeply impressed by the three pounds of tissue that made all of it possible.

  1. 01Language
  2. 02Mathematics
  3. 03Civilization
  4. 04Art
  5. 05Science
  6. 06Rockets
  7. 07Computers
  8. 08A.I.