Comparison of information rates across human communication

39 bits/s is:

- 1.230 Gb/year

- 24 Gb in 20 years = 3 GB

3 GB is theoretical upper limit and overestimate to what human can learn verbally until they are 20 years old. It would require being awake and communicating 24/hours per day.

Of course, we don't learn all what we hear and much of it is repetitive. It's just raw data we could receive and communicate verbally in theory.

As uncompressed English text stream that would be probably 15-20 GB. Imagine Deep Learning model that requires only that amount of training. Not not as training corpus that is gone trough again and again hundreds or thousands of times, but as total input when communicating with the external world.