Too wrong test

How does the brain computer work? Why can we easily solve problems that computers really struggle with?

For example, problems that when reduced to mathematical algorithms, run in exponential or even logarithmic time.

I think the answer is that we don’t use algorithms in our head. The brain isn’t a binary or a quantum computer, at least not entirely.

What it is, I don’t know for sure

The Turing test for artificial intelligence suggests that this is achieved when a computer can fool a human into thinking that it, the computer, is a human.

That’s arse about; it’s much harder for a human to convince another human that it, the human, is in fact a computer.

Which tells us more about humans than it does about computers. And when we can crack this we will know how the brain works.

As an example, was the article below (found in the silly rag this morning) written by a computer or a person?

Actually my guess is that it was a person (say, a gen Y journo) that was accidentally imitating a bad algorithm designed to automatically write news pieces from police bulletins.

There’s no algorithm involved, of this I am sure, in either the writing of the article or of this blog.