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Will big computers outthink big brains?

Tue, 06/02/2009 - 14:09 - NLN

The first electronic computer was tested in 1942. Since that time, computers have changed a great deal, but my own brain has not changed much. While computers have gotten faster and more powerful, I'm still using the first brain installed in my skull.

Sometime soon, a computer will be able to simulate my brain. Later, there will be a computer that can literally read my mind.

We will soon live in a world in which the computing machines are more intellectually powerful than all the human brains on the planet.

Read more at Richmond Times Dispatch.

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