Travis Bemann wrote on 5/2/01 3:24 pm:
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>it has been figured
>out that humans have a
>relatively small amount of
>memory compared to
>today's computers and have
>a very slow processing
>speed.
I hate statements like that. Such statements ("Computers are
better/worse then the human brain!") usualy show a complete
lack of understanding of Artificial Intelligence. Generaly,
things which humans find difficult (like doing math with really
big numbers), computers find easy. What computers find difficult
(recognizing faces, voices, abstract language, etc.) humans
find easy. Yes, computers can do most of those things, but it takes a
massive ammount of programing and computer power
to pull it off.
Take chess, for instance, and it's simpler relitive, checkers. It only
took a few years to make a computer that could beat any human
in checkers. Chess is a much more complex game, but
we
never really discovered how much more complex until we tried
to teach a computer to play it. It took years just to get started.
When a computer finaly did beat the human Grand Master,
it was a mamoth machine with a mamoth amount of programing
going into it. All that to match what humans do in a 1500 cu. cm space.
Computers are not better than humans. Humans are not better
than computers. They are simply two diffrent designs optimized
for two diffrent kinds of tasks.
Timm Murray
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Theory is when you know how it works, but fails. Practice is when something
works, but you don't know why. Here, Theory and Practice come together.
Nothing works, and nobody knows why.
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