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>Biological brains are orders of magnitude superior to any computer

top kek, so brains use biochemical processes and chemicals to pass around information/signals. The speed of it is around 270 miles / hour.

If you propagate electricity through wires and transistors it's pretty much the upper portion of the speed of light, so somewhere between 180 000 miles per second and 90 000 miles per second.

So if you only consider the speed of which information travels in inside an artificial "brain" and an organic brain you'll end up with these differences:

Your brain: 0.075 miles / second
AI: 90 - 180 000 miles / second

Let's we put both on you on a racing track with some vehicles that can speed up to let's say 300 miles / hour. Changes that could occur in a second, let's say a badger popping up a couple of meters in front of the vehicle, you won't even realize by the time the information gets from your eyes to your brain you've probably already ran over it meanwhile an AI could theoretically easily react and compute a decision within nanoseconds.

Another aspect is let's say reading. The average reading speed is 200 to 250 words a minute in non-technical material. By the time you read a book an AI could potentially read a whole library.