Human synapses top out at <100 Hz and the human brain has <10^14 of them. Single silicon chips are >10^10 transistors, operating at >10^9 Hz. Naively, a high end GPU is capable of more state transitions than the human brain by a factor of 1000. That figure for the brain also includes memory; the GPU doesn't. The human brain runs on impressively little power and is basically self-manufacturing, but it's WAY less compact or intricate than a $2000 processor.
The capabilities of the brain are in how it's all wired up. That's exactly what you don't want if you're trying to coopt it to do something else. The brain has giant chunks devoted to extremely specialized purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_face_area#/media/File...
How do you turn that into a workhorse? It would be incredibly difficult. It's like looking at a factory floor and saying oh, look at all that power- lets turn it into a racecar! You can't just grab a ton of unrelated systems and expect them to work together on a task for you.
You're making the implicit assumption that synapses === binary bits, and that synapses are the only thing important to the brains computation. I would be surprised if either of those things were the case.
I don’t think a bit transition is in any way comparable to the “event transmission” to a potentially extremely large number of interconnected other neurons.
An actor-based system would be a better model, and I’m not sure if we have something like that in hardware. I do agree that sometime in the future it will be possible to overcome the biological limit, as cells are most definitely not at an optimum (probably not even at a local one), like duplicated pathways and the like, but it is no way trivial.
John von Neumann had a great paper on the topic, at least his thoughts about it. It is a really great read, even though both technological and biological advances may make it outdated, I think he did see a few things clearly into the future.
The capabilities of the brain are in how it's all wired up. That's exactly what you don't want if you're trying to coopt it to do something else. The brain has giant chunks devoted to extremely specialized purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_face_area#/media/File...
How do you turn that into a workhorse? It would be incredibly difficult. It's like looking at a factory floor and saying oh, look at all that power- lets turn it into a racecar! You can't just grab a ton of unrelated systems and expect them to work together on a task for you.