Internal processing speed
Digital minds can be sped up, slowed, or paused, and run on far shorter timescales than biological neurons.
Table 1 · Digital intelligence
Advantages of a digital mind
Properties of digital intelligence that scale with compute and hardware in ways biology cannot — widening the human–AI gap as computers grow more powerful.
Lossless replication
Source code and full memory state copy exactly — spin up large numbers of identical instances.
Working memory
Far larger working memory than biological minds.
Input / output speed
Collect and emit data far faster than human senses and motor output.
High-bandwidth experience sharing
Instances exchange experience at high bandwidth; many lifetimes can be simulated and replayed to fine-tune a specialist.
Substrate independence
The same AI runs on any sufficiently powerful computer; moving to new hardware is comparatively easy.