Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 30 of 68

The brain computes in parallel

The brain is massively parallel, whereas most computers compute serially. This is why the brain is so fast, despite its relatively slow machinery. The property of parallelism present in neural networks makes connectionist models appealing. The manner in which they carry out the processing task is far closer to how the brain computes.

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