Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies" video.

GuyWithAnAmazingHat the problem is that our brain competes with itself, and the algorithms do not. the big impact here is by the lymbic system and by hormones. they effectively increase or decrease specific target neural tissue groups from firing or not firing. in the end it is still binary (action potential or lack thereof). but the process that determines it is very much determined by a lot more connections and interactions that are able to be replicated by computers anytime soon (in the next 40 years). current deep learning takes millions (and sometimes billions) of computers working together. the human brain's decision making process is a competition between immense numbers of complex, competing neurons not just in the brain but in all parts of the body. (touching that burner or getting hungry have massive impacts on your decisions). we also have hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary hard wiring built into our decision making process (much more than just neurons and neural connections, also includes all the chemical operations impacting these neurons from other parts of the body). the computers have no such hard wiring, do not have limbic systems (are incapable of emotion and treat memory in a fundamentally different way) one day in the future perhaps a computer will be able to replicate a human brain. but it will just be one of many other tasks that computer could do. by the time computers "catch up" to humans, they will already be superior because they will be able to do more than "just" what a human could do. they can't be compared. they will look very different from each other when they are capable of executing the same number of tasks. and the tasks they can perform may have some overlap but will not be identical.
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GuyWithAnAmazingHat i don't think the two are really comparable, the idea of comparing them is a fallacy. one is made of silicon chips, the other is organic in nature. they do not follow the same rules, they are like comparing apples and oranges. when will an orange catch up to an apple? computers are doing crazy things, they make up 70% of the stock markets. they are learning to see, to read, write and speak. they recognize novel objects. whether they are comparable to human brains or not, i have heard predictions by intelligent people that 80% of current jobs in the US will be replaced by automated labor in the next 40 years. there will undoubtedly be new jobs made in the process, but there will have to be some massive changes in society.
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