{"id":24648,"date":"2016-04-13T18:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/are-humans-the-new-supercomputer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:21","slug":"are-humans-the-new-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/are-humans-the-new-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Are Humans the New Supercomputer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-humans-the-new-supercomputer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newswise \u2014 The saying of philosopher Ren\u00e9 Descartes of what makes humans unique is beginning to sound hollow. \u2018I think \u2014 therefore soon I am obsolete\u2019 seems more appropriate. When a computer routinely beats us at chess and we can barely navigate without the help of a GPS, have we outlived our place in the world? Not quite. Welcome to the front line of research in cognitive skills, quantum computers and gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Today there is an on-going battle between man and machine. While genuine machine consciousness is still years into the future, we are beginning to see computers make choices that previously demanded a human\u2019s input. Recently, the world held its breath as Google\u2019s algorithm AlphaGo beat a professional player in the game Go\u2014an achievement demonstrating the explosive speed of development in machine capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>But we are not beaten yet \u2014 human skills are still superior in some areas. This is one of the conclusions of a recent study by Danish physicist Jacob Sherson, published in the prestigious science journal <i>Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/are-humans-the-new-supercomputer\">http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/are-humans-the-new-supercomputer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newswise \u2014 The saying of philosopher Ren\u00e9 Descartes of what makes humans unique is beginning to sound hollow. \u2018I think \u2014 therefore soon I am obsolete\u2019 seems more appropriate. When a computer routinely beats us at chess and we can barely navigate without the help of a GPS, have we outlived our place in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,1617,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67700,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24648\/revisions\/67700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}