Title. Computers and the Internet are some of *the most important* things to come out of recent history almost *entirely* due to the fact that they can *give anyone any information they need*. But how does this happen? How the hell could something *made by humans be smarter than its creator*? It seems so fucking impossible for something to be smarter than its creator, but computers pull this off *every single time one’s created*. This pretty-deep question has seriously bugged me so hard that I’m having a bunch of strangers on the internet who know better than me answer this.
Also, please use less-technical terms that could be understood by a 13-year old, thanks.
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Firstly humans aren’t all that great.
Second, it depends on what you mean by smart. Computers (even the mechanical ones) were optimised to do complex math calculations very fast. A human who built it does understand what the computer is doing but just can’t to it as fast. Now with artificial intelligence the computers are trained to recognise patterns. Again they can do this faster and to greater detail, but only because they’ve been purposely built to do so and iterated upon.
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