This is the second post of the series in AI vs Humans.This post will take a discussion on why AI are smarter than and what makes them smarter than humans. If you have missed the first post I would suggest you to read it. Click this How human brain interprets data - AI vs Humans

Assuming we know about what is an Artificial Intelligence, why you think they are smarter than us ? Is it because they can compute fast or since they are machines so they don’t get tired…to an extent yes.Let us list out the basic things why AI is smarter than us and then get into discussion of it and keep comparing it with Human brain too.

Artificial Intelligence are smarter because of :

• High Computational speed.
• Complex and efficient algorithm which forms the brain.

How much is the speed AI uses and Is it a match with Human Brain ?

MIPS or million instruction per second is used ot measure the computing speed of computers.1 MIPS can extract simple jobs , for example tracking a white line that too on simple background. 10 MIPS can be used in smart bombs or self driven vehicle. For a three dimensional recognition it requires around 1,000 MIPS and so on.It takes a lot for a machine to do even a simple task, thus requirement of hardware and efficient algorithm increase.
One of the documentation I read has give an amazing comparison of human eye and robot eye.I will summarize it in this post as that will be too complex to read.

If we have to make a comparison we can relate the nerve volume to computation of AI.Human eye or Retina to be more specific, Human Retina is less than a centimeter square in aree and has about 100 million neurons.And there are 5 types of neurons( Yeah its amazing).All the neurons join together at the end to form optical nerve.Each nerve carry signal to brain.They react differently when they see an image and its passed to brain to compute it. Overall, the retina seems to process about ten one-million-point images per second.Thats the reason why we are able to pick up images unknowingly.You can say its a camera with some amazingly mega-pixels.

So now how fast AI or a robot can do ?For a single detection or motion detection it needs 100 computer instruction.So 100 million instruction for a million detection of motion and repeat it 1000 times to get to the power of retinal function.Now thats too much.

If we start thinking of make a machine like this, you can make it but at the cost of 100 million dollar project.Unless the cost of hardware and efficiency of machine is overcome it wont be cheap.But then there is another catch, The increasingly development of computer hardware and technology holds the promise to deliver that in 20 yrs.Are you ready ?

Complex and efficient algorithm:

There are algorithm which makes AI to be smart.They are right from apply reasoning capabilities to reach a conclusion,systems with very strong pattern recognition capabilities,techniques for reasoning under uncertainty,applies biologically inspired concepts which can lead to evolution of robots or AI for-maintaining there own population and evolve with time.

I have chosen too algorithm to explain, one will be Neural Networks and other is Evolutionary Computation.So the next post will be dedicated to these to algorithms.I hope to see you in the next post

Tags: artificial intelligence, computational speed, human retina, smart bombs