6 May
2011
6 May
'11
1:38 p.m.
Part of this trend is driven by necessity: modern computers are far better at numerical calculations than symbolic calculations, & part is driven by good mathematics & computational complexity.
Computers could be good at both. Humans (programmers) just do not happen to double in coding capacity every 18 months. Machines have left humans 20 years behind when it comes to exploiting the full potential of the machines.
That gap is widening.
Also the invention of algorithms tends to be time consuming...
However as we also learn more about our own abilities even given the advance in raw power of computer hardware we're still just as far as ever from being able to use a computer to replicate the majority of what the human brain is capable of :)