
Computers
next generation of IT equipment will be able to recognize and act
upon speech, drawn images, handwritten instructions, and so on,
as readily as we can.
Neural networks
Neural networks attempt to take computing even closer to the
human brain. Even with parallel processing, computers are vastly
outperformed by the brain at tasks such as image recognition. On
the face of it, this is surprising, since current computers process
data about a million times faster than the brain!
The reason is that the brain is able to learn from experience. In
effect, it uses its experiences to build up generalized sets of rules,
and then uses these to discer ...