Probably. We are constantly discovering new and amazing things about our own brains but sooner or later mankind will develop technologies electronic or biological systems which are equal to or superior to our own in CAPACITY (more raw memory or computing capacity etc.)
When that occurs you will have a set of systems which could become more complicated than our own brains. At that point or soon after it certainly will be the case that machine intelligence will replace human intelligence as the most superior form on the planet.
The question you want to ask is to what end? It might be that the first such intelligent systems have in a way already been designed. Stock trading systems, weather simulations, simulators of various kinds, genetically guided by evolution, such systems are alreading performing functions too complicated for humans, such as regulation of communications networks etc, "they" or more properly these systems have been doing that for years if not decades, while they are approaching the complexity of a single mind, they are not intelligent in a way that most would recognize. There is no "awareness" other than the state of the market or of the network or whatever system they were designed to simulate.
But a truely evolved or open system which "learned" how to do that bit of awareness and could in theory "learn" to be aware of other systems and things, could be where the ball starts rolling.
Such a system would be able to be "self initiating" or for lack of a better word "creative" in what it chose to study , to what depth, any system demonstrating such behaviors might be considered sentient and could in theory develop itself in any way it "wanted to".
See the "Cyc" program.
2007-03-16 23:16:17
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answered by Mark T 7
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As for erasing human memories. It can happen when a person suffers brain damage from injury or disease such as Alzheimer's.
No one is quite sure how brains process information but it is pretty clear that it is different from the way computers do.
To answer your question first you have to understand what intelligence is. Certainly computers can perform some tasks more quickly and more accurately than a human can but there are other tasks for which computers are hopeless.
Someday we may ride in cars that drive themselves and take us where we want to go on the basis of a spoken command. To do this they will have to have very intelligent computers that know their way around, can communicate with other cars to avoid collisions, and that can monitor their own mechanical "health". But even if they can do this job better than we can do it ourselves they wouldn't necessarily be smarter than an average human.
One of the real tests of intelligence is creativity. Will a computer ever write a book that you or I would enjoy reading? Invent a new drug? Build a better version of itself?
2007-03-16 22:35:11
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answered by rethinker 5
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That brings up many questions that come to mind. Can humans create robots that do things humans can't do, no matter how much training or work someone goes through? I would have to say that we have to know more about the human body to do this. We are on a good start, but I don't think we will be able to create robots, or computers that are smarter then us, like in the Matrix and robot.
This topic does raise many questions. In Isac Askimov's story, Multivac, it talks about a dysfunction in a super technological computer that balances the economy in several countries, manages money, and many other important tasks. However, the computer became so technological and advanced that it had started acting human. It wouldn't work because it required simple common courtesy to make a super computer work.
And back to your question about can computers become smarter then humans- I don't know. It is one of those questions in which we will just have to subside our thoughts and Waite and see.
2007-03-16 18:53:57
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answered by Wendy G 2
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I quite have a chum who did a PhD some years in the past on some thing to do with synthetic intelligence. We used to argue like mad approximately no remember if computers can quite think of and behave intelligently. i think of they can't and could no longer. computers can quite do issues quickly, yet finally they are consistently doing what they do in the confines of a application that has been written. on each and every occasion it makes a determination, it will be in keeping with some good judgment someplace in this methodology code. despite if it makes that determination in an instantaneous, in keeping with hundreds of thousands of stored examples, it is no longer intelligence.
2016-10-02 06:34:29
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answered by mayben 4
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2015-01-25 02:37:11
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answered by Anonymous
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the smartest computer has the same brain power as an earth worm but the computers are getting more powerful but not for a while will it match our brain
2007-03-17 07:39:53
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answered by Hzl 4
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No,because humans have made computer,computers din't made humans.the memories kept in computers can be easily erased but the memorie in human brain cannot be erased by any one.
2007-03-16 20:50:12
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answered by Anonymous
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no, because human brain is the best creation ever. our brain has a greater memory capicity. I don't think that computer can beat that.
2007-03-16 19:56:21
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answered by Alang 1
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Would'nt think so.All the info in a computers memory is put there by humans.Can be just as easily erased.
2007-03-16 18:49:05
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answered by Anonymous
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