Humans vs. Computers
Explore the contrast between human intelligence and computer processing in solving tasks. Understand how computers excel at arithmetic while humans are better at recognizing images, illustrating challenges in artificial intelligence development.
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How computers understand information
Computers are nothing more than calculators at heart. They are very fast at doing arithmetic. This is great for tasks that match what a calculator does—summing numbers for sales, applying percentages to work out taxes, and plotting graphs of existing data.
Even watching catch-up TV or streaming music through your computer doesn’t involve much more than the computer executing simple arithmetic instructions again and again. It may surprise you, but reconstructing a video frame from the 1s and 0s that are piped across the internet to your computer is done ...