Artificial Intelligence

Human Mind vs Computer

Philosophers compared human mind to a machine. Some of the early metaphors for memory includes wax tablet, a tore house and an extensively index library. The activity of the brain is compared with that of telephone exchange and to weaving on a loom. However, the computational or computer metaphor is the latest.

According to computational metaphor the computer is a complex multi purpose machine that process information quickly and accurately. Though there is physical differences between computer and human mind, both may operate according to similar general principals, such as;

• Computer has variety of internal mechanism. They have a central processing mechanism with limited capacity. This resembles human's limited attention capacity. 

• Computer system distinguishes between an active process and large capacity information storage. Likewise, human memory could be distinguished between short term and long term memory. 

• Both computer and human can make choices and compare symbols.

Computer Stimulation

Computer stimulation attempts to take human limitation into account. Several areas in which computer stimulation research has been conducted are basic visual processing.; language prepossessing cannot be performed by the computer. For example; a computer cannot announce the time similar to what a ten year old child can announce. Computer cannot match human's sophistication in learning languages, identifying objects or solving problems. In spite of these limitations of computers, artificial intelligence has influences research theory in cognitive psychology.

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