Why machines don't think like humans
For asking we've had computers we're tried to make machines that think the way do what it's not real like you can just write a program with a few simple rules and all of a sudden you have some crazy smart artifical intelligence that can recommended the perfect movie to distract us while it invitably takes over the world because well for one we don't really know what those rules would be but even if we cannot make a machine that thinks the way we do we can make machines that solve many of the same problems we can so how does that work well it boils down to probablity let's say you have a brand -new bbaby robot and it knows nothing about the world at the end of its first day the rabot watches the sunset but it doesnot know anything so it's not sure if the sun is going to rise again it takes a guess 50/50 the sun has an equal chance of coming up or not coming up to keep track of its guests it puts a white marble and a black marble into a jar to the rabot the odds of random'y picking the white marbles are the same as the odds of the sun coming up morning comes the sun rises and the robot realizes that may be the sun comes up more often then not so it puts another white marble into the jar now the chances of randomly picking a white marble are better than the chances of picking a black marble the sun keeps rising each day and thr robot keep putting white marbles into the jar after hundred days the robot has 99 white marbles and only one black marble it's 99 percent sure the sun will come up tommrow but it has no idea why the robot does'nt know that the sun is a gaint fairball that more or less stays fixed in space while the earth rotates all it knows is that each time the sun does actually rise the odds that it will contimue to come up get better and since its predictions are accurate no more really cares about how it actually got them our eye are just more complicated versions of this baby robat only instead of predicting whether or not the sun will come up they use massive amounts of data to figure out which genes are associated with cancer or recognize the faces in that photo you just like an AIS can do these things say better than any human even though we may not know the detail of how theu actually works so we're still a long way from building machines that think the way we do but that may not actually matter our thinking machines don't have to think like us
For asking we've had computers we're tried to make machines that think the way do what it's not real like you can just write a program with a few simple rules and all of a sudden you have some crazy smart artifical intelligence that can recommended the perfect movie to distract us while it invitably takes over the world because well for one we don't really know what those rules would be but even if we cannot make a machine that thinks the way we do we can make machines that solve many of the same problems we can so how does that work well it boils down to probablity let's say you have a brand -new bbaby robot and it knows nothing about the world at the end of its first day the rabot watches the sunset but it doesnot know anything so it's not sure if the sun is going to rise again it takes a guess 50/50 the sun has an equal chance of coming up or not coming up to keep track of its guests it puts a white marble and a black marble into a jar to the rabot the odds of random'y picking the white marbles are the same as the odds of the sun coming up morning comes the sun rises and the robot realizes that may be the sun comes up more often then not so it puts another white marble into the jar now the chances of randomly picking a white marble are better than the chances of picking a black marble the sun keeps rising each day and thr robot keep putting white marbles into the jar after hundred days the robot has 99 white marbles and only one black marble it's 99 percent sure the sun will come up tommrow but it has no idea why the robot does'nt know that the sun is a gaint fairball that more or less stays fixed in space while the earth rotates all it knows is that each time the sun does actually rise the odds that it will contimue to come up get better and since its predictions are accurate no more really cares about how it actually got them our eye are just more complicated versions of this baby robat only instead of predicting whether or not the sun will come up they use massive amounts of data to figure out which genes are associated with cancer or recognize the faces in that photo you just like an AIS can do these things say better than any human even though we may not know the detail of how theu actually works so we're still a long way from building machines that think the way we do but that may not actually matter our thinking machines don't have to think like us
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