But this doesn’t explain why we can build and program computers to do it much better than we do.
It absolutely does. These are things that humans are not designed to do. (Things humans are designed to do: recognizing familiar faces, isolating a single voice in a crowded restaurant, navigating from point A to point B by means of transport, walking, language, etc.) Imagine hammering in a nail with a screwdriver. You could do it.. but not very well. When we design machines to solve problems we find difficult, we create solutions that don’t exist in the structure of our brain. It would be natural to expect that artificial minds would be better suited to solve some problems than us.
Other than that, I’m not sure what you’re arguing, since that “counterintuitive observation” is exactly what I was saying.
It absolutely does. These are things that humans are not designed to do. (Things humans are designed to do: recognizing familiar faces, isolating a single voice in a crowded restaurant, navigating from point A to point B by means of transport, walking, language, etc.) Imagine hammering in a nail with a screwdriver. You could do it.. but not very well. When we design machines to solve problems we find difficult, we create solutions that don’t exist in the structure of our brain. It would be natural to expect that artificial minds would be better suited to solve some problems than us.
Other than that, I’m not sure what you’re arguing, since that “counterintuitive observation” is exactly what I was saying.