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What human brain is good at: chains of causation with clearly defined relationships. I.e. stories. What human brain is bad at: fuzzy mess of thousands or billi
by ajuc 3y ago
What human brain is good at: chains of causation with clearly defined relationships. I.e. stories.
What human brain is bad at: fuzzy mess of thousands or billions of interrelated events that all influence each other slightly.
This is the reason we have to use machine learning to find a program that seems to solve OCR or natural language or image recognition instead of just writing these programs ourselves. We cannot comprehend the complexity, we can only recognize if it works roughly how we want it to.
- interroboink 3y agoI sort-of agree, but maybe not on the term "human brain". I think there is definitely something (or several things) in that brain that is extremely good at fuzzy messes of correlations. It's just not the conscious mind that maybe some people think of as their "self". After all, those difficult image-recognition and language tasks are carried out by the human brain, even if we can't explain how they work in the "explainer" part of our mind. Tangentially related, I find the split-brain experiments fascinating[1], in how they demonstrate clearly that there can be multiple "consciousnesses" at work, and the one that does the talking is only one of them, and is not necessarily running the show. [1] example, with interviews with a patient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv4K5aStdU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv4K5aStdU
- ajuc 3y agoYeah, should have said the conscious, abstract thinking part. We also have coprocessors for intuitive physics, face detection, inverse kinematics for muscle movement, etc. And even some virtualization so we can simulate other people minds.