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**Duaceanceksm** · 08-27-2009, 05:47 PM

One of the major problems with the whole singularity business is that the brain is relatively robust while a digital computer is relatively brittle (even leaving aside the undecidability of bug removal). Brain cells die and synapses misfire all the time, but we still manage to more or less function. On the other hand a single transient memory fault can crash a supercomputer.

RE the difference between human intelligence and computational intelligence, human-computer chess games are a good example of the disconnect: human chess masters only look one or two moves ahead in a chess game and mostly focus on board patterns (try to maximize space covered by a bishop etc.), while chess-playing supercomputers look ahead several moves with fancy heuristics to trim the search space.

08-27-2009, 05:47 PM	#6
Duaceanceksm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 498 Senior Member	One of the major problems with the whole singularity business is that the brain is relatively robust while a digital computer is relatively brittle (even leaving aside the undecidability of bug removal). Brain cells die and synapses misfire all the time, but we still manage to more or less function. On the other hand a single transient memory fault can crash a supercomputer. RE the difference between human intelligence and computational intelligence, human-computer chess games are a good example of the disconnect: human chess masters only look one or two moves ahead in a chess game and mostly focus on board patterns (try to maximize space covered by a bishop etc.), while chess-playing supercomputers look ahead several moves with fancy heuristics to trim the search space.
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