Maital points to another example of computer intelligence in his article “ Will robots soon be smarter than humans?” On February 10, 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue computer defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in the first of a six-game series, going on to eventually win the series a year later - the first computer ever to do so. Computers can be programmed to replicate some of those tasks, but they don’t possess the innate ability to create the way humans do. A person can write a poem, compose and play music, sing a song, create a painting or dream up a new invention. Humans possess traits we sometimes refer to (again, in the abstract) as creativity, imagination and inspiration. Computers can be programmed with vast libraries of information, but they can’t experience life the way we do.
We perform tasks, make decisions, and solve problems based not just on our intelligence but on our massively parallel processing wetware - in abstract, what we like to call our instincts, our common sense, and perhaps most importantly, our life experiences. On the other hand, humans are still superior to computers in many ways. They’re not affected or influenced by emotions, feelings, wants, needs and other factors that often cloud the judgement and intelligence of us mere mortals. Notwithstanding bugs or susceptibility to power blackouts, computers are simply more accurate at pulling off a broadening range of high-value functions than we are. Computers don’t require sleep the way humans do, so they can calculate, analyze and perform tasks tirelessly and round the clock. They have better memories, so they can be fed a large amount of information, and can tap into all of it almost instantaneously. Computers enjoy other advantages over people.
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