Who is smarter? Human or computer?

China
June 11, 2009 3:04am CST
Dear all, I know the question sounds a little bit weird. Of course Human is smarter! Humna created the computer, sounds right!But, wait a minute, why it hard for you to beat the computer when you are playing the vedio games VS computer? 9 games out of 10,i lost to my computer! Why? I think i am just not smart enough. Some of the people was saying, in the future, when we create robots, they might even smarter than us!lolSo, what do you say?
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
3 Jul 09
Of course humans are smarter; they possess real intelligence. Computers are machines that are programmed by humans to perform tasks.
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@youless (112096)
• Guangzhou, China
11 Jun 09
I still think that human beings are smarter than the computer. As you said, the computers are created by us. There is a famous saying: The imagination is much more important than the knowledge. The computer can not create something or have the imagination. So we are much more powerful than them. The computers are professional to do the calculation and the repeating work. They are just machines. I love China
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• Canada
12 Jun 09
But what if the computers get to a point where they can rebuild themselves? We're already at a point where you don't need to upgrade the software on your computer, it knows when it needs to upgrade, and how to collect and install the upgrade... in many cases, it doesn't even ask you to do it, or you just have to tell it that it can upgrade whenever it wants, and it will. They're getting closer and closer... and maybe at some point, they'll even beat us out!
• China
12 Jun 09
That's right. Computer can not create things but we humna can! Cheers!
@firumon (501)
• India
3 Jul 09
Hi vivianchen, The difficulty in decidiing whether a computer (call it a machine) is conscious is in deciding what consciousness is. To begin with are we talking about self-awareness, or the ability to respond to internal and external stimuli? In the first case, I don’t think current computers are self-aware, tho in my 20+ years experience as a computer programmer I sometimes wondered when the machine was fighting me over in whatever program I was writing. This, of course, was just an illusion–an emotional reaction on my part, and in the end I won. In the second case, yes, computers are conscious. How else would they know what key was pressed or the details of other input devices? How do you know when you hit your thumb with a hammer and it hurts? Is not your brain a computer of sorts? Whatever the case, we still don’t know what consciousness truly is. But I believe that consciousness is a property of the universe. How else could it exist. But what is its exact nature? For consciouness to exist in a single entity, be it human or machanical/electronic, all that is required is a sufficiently complex "brain" (note the quotes) that can individualize itself from the universe. Yet I still cannot "prove" the the people around me are conscious. I believe they are because I am conscious (so I believe), and a very similar machine. And, yes, we are machines. So what is to prevent other "types" of machines to be "conscious" and one day soon, self-aware? I believe it will happen given enough time. It may have already happened elsewhere in the universe. I am concluding, anyway thank you very much dear friend...
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• China
11 Jul 09
Dear Friends, Sorry for the late reply. You have many good points there! But unfortunately, i am too stupid to understand them.
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
10 Jul 09
I think Human is smarter than the computer.We are the ones who invent the computer.We are the one to write the logic for all the computers moments.A computer cannot work by itself.It needs our support.It is just made out of transistors.Yes in games the computer beats us most of the time.But it is not the computer is smart.A smart person has written the logic in the game to beat us.
• China
11 Jul 09
I think that is the point! We are not smart enough than the people who create that game.
• Philippines
11 Jun 09
I do believe that humans are smarter than machines, after all the humans are the ones who invented and created these machines. The ones who created it knows the strengths and weaknesses of what they created that's why every year a better computer or cellular phone are released in the market. You sometimes cannot beat a computer because you don't know the algorithms used to run to run it. But if you know the tricks, you'll surely beat it. Robots seem smarter than us but they lose battery power or electric power, without batteries they won't work. We humans don't need batteries to do anything. All we need is eat, drink, sleep or have a good time to recharge.
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• Philippines
12 Jun 09
Yes we are. We might end up like in the Terminator movies. That's scary. But I guess based on the movie, humans are the ones who created that super genius computer right?
• China
12 Jun 09
You know what. if the computer will have no weakness, we human are in dangerous!
@nimzia (388)
• India
12 Jun 09
That is human,because humans came first and they invented computers.so its we humans in the first post.secondly they never think only we who think.so its 100% sure we are the best not computers.
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• China
12 Jun 09
Sometimes we might not the best, like when we lost the game to the computer, i wish i am smart as a computer so that i can put all the information and store it and take it out whenever i need it!
@Kowgirl (3490)
• United States
11 Jun 09
The computer may beat you at games but remember it can only put out what is put into it. So somewhere someone knew the strategy to these games and knew from what plays you made what strategy to use to beat you. For that reason alone is why when we are told "it was a computer mistake" we know better. Computers don't make mistakes only humans do.
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• China
12 Jun 09
see, computer don'tmake mistake but human does! Can we say computer is smarter than human?
@hdjohnson (2981)
• United States
11 Jun 09
Since human's created computers, we humans are better. The reason why you keep losing at the video games, you just haven't played long enough yet. Eventually, you'll play so much until you will create an instant winning streak for yourself. Remember practice makes perfect. Although I don't know all of the intricate details of how a computer program works, I do know enough to ask for help, and I learn by reading. It is sad that some folks think that because they know more than someone in a particular area, that it makes them SMARTER than others. That really isn't the case. Everyone is smarter than someone else in a particular area. For instance, Michael Jordan is better and smarter at playing basketball, than he is at playing baseball. Tiger Woods is better and smarter at playing golf than he is at playing baseball. I'm sure that Tiger Woods would easily beat Michael Jordan at golf, and vice versa, Michael Jordan would easily beat Tiger Woods at a game of basketball.
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• China
12 Jun 09
I like your saying. lol....Makes me feel that i am not stupid, but i am just lazy, did not practice enough!
• India
11 Jun 09
It is the way computers are desiged that makes them smarter then we are. In reality it is man who has desiged the gaming software and so on. For this I don't agree that a computer is smarter then a man. Man has feelings, can understand people whereas computer is just a thing created by man himself for his enjoyment. It is no where greater then the person who has created it.
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• China
11 Jun 09
But it was say that in the future, we can design a feeling COMS chip and install inside the robot and then they have feelings too!
@daliaj (5674)
• India
11 Jun 09
Yes, we can say that humans are smarter because they created the computer, but I will say not all humans. I thought about the same issue when I played chess with computer. I faliled all the times, I couldn't think of many possibilites which computer have in mind. So, I will say sometiems computer is smarter than humans.
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• China
11 Jun 09
Haha...I lost all me chess game too. I never won. That's why i was wondering maybe computer is smarter than me.cheers!
• United States
12 Jun 09
Human will always be smarter then computer because we made them. On some levels such as calculating, computers may be faster but Humans can always overpower computers as we are the inventors. Inventors will always be smarter then their inventions unless we create like a superhuman or something. Very interesting topic...
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• Canada
12 Jun 09
Inventors will always be smarter then their inventions... but what if those inventions get to a point where they can improve upon themselves? Then they can easily surpass the inventor, because they won't need the inventor anymore, to do better.
• Malaysia
11 Jun 09
you loosexto your computer and you call yourself not smart? of course you smarter than computer,it is just you dont know the key of playing..come on beat the computer as well..i always winning when i played games in computer.
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• China
12 Jun 09
You actually beat the computer in the game?! Wow... you are smarter than the computer!
• United States
12 Jun 09
The man who invented computer is smater. what ever the computer can perform it cant do the thing that man does. Robots can be invented & can be asked to do tasks. Its is impossible for it to do want a man can. For us good have given "6th SENSE" which can never be transferred to computers.
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• Canada
12 Jun 09
I wouldn't be too sure on that, even. At the rate that computers are improving, doubling their power every 18 months ever since the 70s, it will only take another 40 years before they can reach our levels of understanding and brain power. When that happens, they might have a 6th sense that even beats out ours.
• United States
12 Jun 09
In most ways humans are smarter than computers since we invented computers. Some may say that computers are smarter because they can calculate faster and do many other operations faster than humans but humans are the ones that created the software fore these programs. By the way this is only my view and everyone is going to have to their own opinion.
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• Canada
12 Jun 09
The computers of today, and of the last 50 years, are only good at singular things that we tell them to do. A calculator is better at doing math then we are, and a word processor can see when you make spelling errors... but no computer can do everything we can do. Even getting a computer to walk upright, or be able to follow an abject in motion, has been extremely difficult for programmers to do... but it is happening.
@derek_a (10874)
12 Jun 09
A computer cannot use its feelings to reason things out. It just what it has been programmed to do. Our brains are sophisticated computers - very complex and can do many things a computer cannot do. But in a way, us humans will most often do things we have been programmed to do. - Derek
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@don_naces (464)
• Philippines
12 Jun 09
Of course, we are smarter than computers. As what you have mentioned, human created computers. It's just that we have our own limitations.
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• India
11 Jun 09
hi vivianchen, apart from creator-created relationship, computers are less smarter as at a time they do only the thing they are doing like an idiot. whereas a human being however small he/she may be has so many things in the brain that are sufficient to use much of the smartness/intelligent.Above all the computers do not any hassle due to emotion which often makes human less smarter. So it is better not to compare us with a dumb till computers do not get intelligent.
• China
11 Jun 09
Hi easy arkadeb, i sure know that computer is just a machine, but this is just a dicussion, will there be a possiblity that one day, the robot will turn the table around?
@dianmelydia (2269)
• Indonesia
11 Jun 09
Human is smarter than computer. You know what, human creating computers. But computer, no matter how many and how sophisticated, absolutely can't create human. I don't think computer can own its own knowledge without human input. The only fact is computer faster than human in thinking and calculation. That's just because computer is just a machine without feelings. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.
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• China
11 Jun 09
Hello there, I like this point"The only fact is computer faster than human in thinking and calculation" That is something that human can't beat a computer.
@hi2rashid (153)
• India
12 Jun 09
I think both human is smarter. In the olden days peoples have less number of tensions they lived their lives very happily. during this 20th century lot of things are invented. science and technology improved.so we got an amzing machine called computer. still improvement works re going on. But computer is not able to do all works . but we can make the computer to do so. but human hav the ability to do any work. so human is smarter.
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• China
12 Jun 09
I do think human is smarter than computer from overall. If in the future,when we create robots who might even smarter than us! maybe, we should call them "mechanical life" .
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