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We cannot force a creative element into a computer this is what is driving our current technology revolution and all the revolutions before it. It has no consideration only logic and the definition of what intellegence is, is so vague the answer is impossible to define. Can a computer be more logical than a human being through decifering possible soltions and causes at a faster rate? yes. Can it account for emotions and circumstances that a machine can never understand no. Our intellegence will always be more applicable to areas other than the given enumerted quantitive explanation. so the answer it can think faster but unless someone programs every possible personality type and pretty much every aspect of everything ever in exsistence into a given computer than it will never out weigh the general intellegence of the average human being. Albeit some people are simply retarded. there are game boys more intellegent then the,
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The created cannot be considered smarter than the creator until the creator is no longer required by the created.
I don't ever see that happening, quite frankly. A computer would need some ultra-serious programming logic to be able to absorb the incredible amounts of data we receive daily as humans, then link it together to derive "new" information. We are smart because we process everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell and then combine that data to "create" new things. A computer can take in the data but it'll take a human to put it together. The logic rules are too complex, and even illogical at times, to allow a computer the same flexibility.
A computer has to "start" somewhere and that always includes a human. Ergo, the computer will always be reliant on a human and, as such, limited by its own creator. A computer can appear more intelligent purely on the basis of its data and objective reasoning but ultimately, it's still just a tool in our hands.
I don't ever see that happening, quite frankly. A computer would need some ultra-serious programming logic to be able to absorb the incredible amounts of data we receive daily as humans, then link it together to derive "new" information. We are smart because we process everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell and then combine that data to "create" new things. A computer can take in the data but it'll take a human to put it together. The logic rules are too complex, and even illogical at times, to allow a computer the same flexibility.
A computer has to "start" somewhere and that always includes a human. Ergo, the computer will always be reliant on a human and, as such, limited by its own creator. A computer can appear more intelligent purely on the basis of its data and objective reasoning but ultimately, it's still just a tool in our hands.
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The only thing computer lacks is the power to make decisions...which humans do have...
They are still doing research in AI to make computers smart but without and input, there is no output...computers are dumb and useless without us....?
They are still doing research in AI to make computers smart but without and input, there is no output...computers are dumb and useless without us....?
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Reported on slashdot today:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../03/25/1452209
"European researchers have taken a step towards replicating the functioning of the brain in silicon, creating new custom chip with the equivalent of 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections. The aim of the Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States (FACETS) project is to better understand how to construct massively parallel computer systems modeled on a biological brain. Unlike IBM's Blue Brain project, which involves modeling a brain in software, this approach makes it much easier to create a truly parallel computing system. The set-up also features a distributed algorithm that introduces an element of plasticity, allowing the circuit to learn and adapt. The researchers plan to connect several chips to create a circuit with a billion neurons and 10^13 synapses (about a tenth of the complexity of the human brain)."
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