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Artificial Intelligence The modem world is increasingly populated by intelligent gadgetst whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated tellers that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers, There are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with millimeter accuracy—far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone.
It is hoped that artificial intelligence could be able to copy the action of the human brain.
However, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.
What they found, in attempting to construct thought model, is that the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented and human perception is far more complicated than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a strictly controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can’t approach that kind of ability.
