RE: We are no different than computers
April 22, 2015 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2015 at 5:24 am by Alex K.)
(April 22, 2015 at 5:21 am)pocaracas Wrote: Present-day computers are mainly sequential machines.... there's some parallelism, but it's always very limited, when compared to the parallelizing power of analog neuron "computing".I think when you'd train an artificial neural network, you would also slowly reduce the factor by which new inputs rescale the weights, once the most important stuff is learned. That might mimic the effect you mention to some extent.
Until we can mimic the millions (more like billions) of parallel processing centers and their interactions with each other, we won't be able to compare our computers with a functioning brain.
Also, it is my guess that, as soon as such a fully parallel machine is turned on, we'll see it behaving almost like a human child, perhaps a baby.... it will require some sort of "sensory input", not just text from a keyboard, but also images... it may become very adept very quickly and not suffer from path degradation like humans do during their teen years... because of that, it may come to suffer from some form of overload...
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