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And people think that their brains are so different from computers...
by Retra 11y ago
And people think that their brains are so different from computers...
- yathern 11y agoPart of the article actually uses this as in exact example of how brains are different from computers. Granted, it's from 1983. The man in question essentially missed the forest for the trees - unable to perform any visual abstraction or familiarity, while still having strong abilities to identify the individual features of an object. At the end of the day, brains are, indeed quite different from computers. The closest things that I'm aware of are neural nets, which can be subject to biases and confusion in a similar way to human brains - rather than a CPU.
- seiji 11y agoneural nets, which can be subject to biases and confusion in a similar way to human brains - rather than a CPU. That's a slight abuse of comparisons. Saying an ANN is not like a CPU would be like saying your stomach is not like a refrigerator. An ANN is a universal approximator / universal modeler. A (turing-complete) CPU is a universal simulator. There's no native "CPU algorithm" to exploit or sample against for any knowledge retrieval.