Will a computer ever rival a human brain?

A computer is a machine that can be programmed and process information at very high speeds. Every second your personal home laptop with a Intel Core 2 Duo processor can preform billions of calculations and operations per second. But you have to understand computer processing and human brain processing are two very different things. A computer can process billions of instructions per second, but it can only do one at a time. Where as the brain has whats called parallel processing, which it allows it to process more than one instruction per second. Its true computers are better at calculating advanced algebra and complicated equations. Here is a situation of Human Brain verses a computer. Say your making a spread sheet and you put hundreds of different numbers in. The human can calculate the numbers and so can the computer. But if you change the key number in the spreadsheet the computer will crush the human. Because the human will have to go and calculate the change in the numbers.

Sure we may have programmed them to do what they do today but if you put the best Chess player against the best supercomputer the supercomputer will more than likely beat the human at chess. Sure we created them, but everyday people are trying to give a computer a mind of its own. When they do succeed computers will most likely take over the world. They will dwarf us in intelligence in one second! Besides computers are making more intelligent machines today.

People say that the human brain can process more instructions per second than any supercomputer. The fastest supercomputer in the world is the Tianhe - 1 which processes information at 2.5 petaFLOPS. Which is equivilant to over two and a half quadrillion calculations per second! But the biggest difference between humans and computers are emotions.