How are computers and similar machines so fucking ‘inhumanly’ accurate?
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In terms of why it’s inhuman: because humans are horribly inaccurate. We, as brains, are neural networks that learn through experience. All the math that we know and do is something we had to figure out over the course of our lifetimes. Computers, on the other hand, have the advantage of being “born” knowing – the math that humans took centuries figuring out can be pre-programmed into them. They have no uncertainty (technically not true but for all intents and purposes that’s what we’ll go with) and no doubts about the calculations they perform. The way they work is just different on the ground level, since they aren’t (with the exception of AI) actually learning anything. All they’re doing is taking inputs and following orders.
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