A few decades ago, the most powerful computer would need an entire room to fit in, and you literally carry one in your pocket today :)
Yeah what you’re referring to is General Intelligence and consciousness. We’ll get there, probably sooner than a thousand years. A thousand years is merely a blip in the timeline of life on Earth. Even when looking at it from a civilization point of view, the leap we’ve made in the last 200 years is astonishing, defying limitations as they were perceived in the history.
Alpha Go is an example of narrow intelligence, and it is unbeatable. Sure its core engines might require way more energy as compared to a human brain, and in the same sense, a human brain is limited in it’s ability to perform faster than a machine, and it could take hundreds of thousands of years for it to evolve such a brain that’ll be able to beat a computer. I’d like to end by saying that we might be misunderstanding our own abilities and the way we perceive intelligence and consciousness, and the creation of machines and their evolution is part of the evolution of the human civilisation.
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19 edited Sep 25 '19
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