A small example...if I purchase one unit of a product that's a small part of a bigger piece of merchandise, but still sellable..the human cashiers usually overcharge me...but if I use an electronic self check-out, the computer always gives me the correct price.
In another realm of AI, Raymond Kurzweil predicts that a pc will by the year 2020 match the computing speed and capacity of the human brain.
2006-11-30 13:40:58 · 5 answers · asked by esha26 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Computers are lacking in their capability to learn. They tend to surpass humans in pure rationality issues, and eventually they'll be better at certain things humans are good at intuitively just by taking in enough information. However, the algorithms for a computer's intelligence requires everything to be objective. So there's no way for it to interpret something unless there's an algorithm there to determine how to interpret it. In short, the brain is self-programming. A computer does not really have that capability. To do such would require human beings knowing how to program computers that can program brains. And at that point, we might as well just program our own damned brains to be like that.
But in terms of raw processing speed, sure, computers will eventually surpass mankind. After all, if nothing else, they're likely using superior technology. All we have is a bunch of neurons and whatnot.
2006-11-30 13:50:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are comparing apples to oranges. Computers are not "smart" as such. They simple follow an instruction set. If the instruction set is accurate, they are accurate. They do nothing that wasn't programmed into them by a human. Since a human programmed them, then humans must be smarter. Of course, some humans are smarter than others. I guess it would be like comparing a computer to a toaster.
By the way, as far as AI goes, computing speed and capacity is not the criteria. The real test is: does the computer do what it's instruction set tells it to do or does it come up with ideas of it's own. No original thought means that it's not truly intelligent.
2006-11-30 22:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by wires 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to define smarter.
A computer is just a machine, so it is not smart in the sense that it can think, ever! Someone smart has to program it, but once the program is written computers are much faster than human beings in almost everything, and usually faster than most human beings in things like playing Chess. or games.
Some games are so complex that trying to mathematically calculate how to win is so compicated and slow that a human that knows the game can almost always beat the computer,
but eventually if what that human knows can be understood and turned into a program a computer will eventually do it faster and better or at least a draw.
2006-11-30 23:29:18 · answer #3 · answered by themountainviewguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Much more accurate and a hell of a lot quicker - but infinitely not smarter.
Humans design them, program them and debug them - they are just machines that make us more efficient in the tasks we perform.
2006-11-30 22:46:12 · answer #4 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And if nobody turns it on?
2006-11-30 21:49:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋