How are computers and similar machines so fucking ‘inhumanly’ accurate?
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Humans are solving harder problems than computers and they’re doing so with less energy consumption.
To accomplish this, humans don’t use *exact* logic, instead relying on a series of fuzzy and imprecise heuristics and rules designed to *approximate* the correct solution in a scenario of limited information, limited processing time, limited hardware size, limited energy availability, etc.
If you make computers solve similarly hard problems, they necessarily get similarly imprecise. The only reason computers can solve *some* problems more accurately than humans can is because they’re either easier problems to solve or because the computers are using billions of times as much energy in doing so.
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