I think this kind of reverence for the efficacy of the human brain is comical. When we have a computer go champion, your comment will become slightly more sensical.
I think this kind of reverence for the efficacy of the human brain is comical.
When we have a computer go champion, your comment will become slightly more sensical.
You seriously can’t see that one coming?
I’d bet its 5 years away perhaps? But it only illustrates my point—because by some measures computers are already more powerful than the brain, which makes its wiring all the more impressive.
That seems optimistic to me. A few recent computer strength graphs:
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=Zen19
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=HcBot
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=Manyfaces1
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=Zen
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=CzechBot
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=AyaMC
You seriously can’t see that one coming?
I’d bet its 5 years away perhaps? But it only illustrates my point—because by some measures computers are already more powerful than the brain, which makes its wiring all the more impressive.
That seems optimistic to me. A few recent computer strength graphs:
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=Zen19
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=HcBot
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=Manyfaces1
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=Zen
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=CzechBot
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=AyaMC