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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Computers have access to more “thinking power” than humans but they aren’t *clever* in the same way that humans are. They excel at learning to do a given task extremely well, but they can’t generate new ways of doing things by themselves. You can teach a computer the rules of chess and it’ll learn to play better than any human, but it wouldn’t be able to use that skill outside the setting of a chess game.
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