[QUOTE=Micr0;27073439]I don't know what makes you doubt this. By your logic, computers shouldn't be able to perform arithmetic any more complicated than the smartest mathematician, but they already can. The calculator that you use in school every day and even the computer that you're sitting in front of right now are perfect examples of this. Why would a computer not be able to exceed human capabilities in other ways?[/QUOTE]
A computer can't demonstrably do this. There are people who are faster than calculators. Including savants. What you can consciously compute and what the whole brain can do are two completely different things. If we had to consciously walk we'd never get a step either (see: QWOP) It's like saying because the general can't defeat a tank with his bare hands that the army can therefore not conquer a country.
The problem is scientists are idiots when it comes to these things and very few people have learned math in a capacity that isn't conscious. So it seems like we are just slow at that.
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[QUOTE=Pythagoras;27064671]Okay now you're just being arrogant. I don't give a shit what kind of degree in programming you have, that doesn't give you the right to pretend you know everything about how computers will work in the next 10-100 years. Have a look at IBM's Watson computer. It takes information in human-readable form, and formats it in a way it can understand. That's a huge step towards computers that can teach themselves. I can only imagine what they'll be like in the future.[/QUOTE]
Ever heard of the chinese room? Computing capacity is secondary, I dare say even entirely unrelated to intelligence.
Lest we'd already have had the robot uprising.
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I think actually Bungie has a pretty good idea on this sort of thing.
we also need to figure out how the brain works too before we can make it
we know it has x amount of neurons but we're not 100% sure how they work together
The video is very poorly made but the concept it tries to explain is sound.
[QUOTE=CapsAdmin;27075185]we also need to figure out how the brain works too before we can make it
we know it has x amount of neurons but we're not 100% sure how they work together[/QUOTE]
We can just copy it, without understanding how it works completely.
[QUOTE=Transhuman;27078458]We can just copy it, without understanding how it works completely.[/QUOTE]
That seems like a bit of a bad idea. It's probably best we understand what we're doing before we go around creating artificial copies of the human brain.
We've done that already. See: Neural nets.
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