by Rutilo Mendoza
As technology accelerates, we wonder if there will be a day when computers will be capable to interact like a human beings. Because of their unique performance in calculation, we are tempted to think that computers are better than us.It is true that they are consistence in performing certain tasks, but there are many things that computers lack. For instance, they do not have common sense. When you search the Internet, you have to be very cautious on asking to the search engines. Otherwise, you get something else.
Robots are the closest machines that act almost like humans. They can work many hours without breaks and still they don’t get tired. A single computer can work faster and be more productive than many people together.
Even thought there have been a lot of improvements on building robots, making they to take decisions by themselves is still a challenge. The first, obstacle for AI researches is to make robots movable. In order for a robot to be independent it has to be able to move from one place to another without our help.
For those who think that our brain cannot compete with computers. The fastest PC processor chip on the market is 750MHz Pentium. By simple calculation, we can see that we would need at least 24,000 of these processors in a system to match up to the total speed of the brain. Which means the brain is like a 168,0000 MHz Pentium computer. But even so, other factors like memory and the complexity of the system needed to handle so many processors will not be a simple task. Because of these factors, the figures we so childishly calculated will most probably be a very serious underestimate.
