Computers can scale, you can make a computer much larger than a human brain.
Computers really just do binary math. For those who don’t know, it’s basically determining whether or not 1 or 0 should change, or stay the same, based on an algorithm. We don’t know (or at least, I haven’t read that we know) how brains actually store and process information.
Computers are very fast at doing “simple” calculations with definite answers. A pocket calculator can do math faster than you can with 100% accuracy. On the flip side, analyzing and reacting to incomplete information is the forte of the human brain. We still haven’t made a computer than can fit in a car and drive better than some of the dumbest people on the planet manage to do, while fucking around on their phones at the same time.
Aren’t brains like orders of magnitude faster and more “powerful” than even the strongest supercomputers?
It’s complicated.
Computers can scale, you can make a computer much larger than a human brain.
Computers really just do binary math. For those who don’t know, it’s basically determining whether or not 1 or 0 should change, or stay the same, based on an algorithm. We don’t know (or at least, I haven’t read that we know) how brains actually store and process information.
Computers are very fast at doing “simple” calculations with definite answers. A pocket calculator can do math faster than you can with 100% accuracy. On the flip side, analyzing and reacting to incomplete information is the forte of the human brain. We still haven’t made a computer than can fit in a car and drive better than some of the dumbest people on the planet manage to do, while fucking around on their phones at the same time.