Artificial artificial intelligence.

This article discusses the replacement of computers with human for certain tasks. Many tasks still baffle even the most powerful electronic brain. AskForCents, a computer service which provides internet users with various types of information, is an example of this replacement. Members of the websit...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 379; no. 8481; pp. 10 - 12
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 6/10/2006
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Sumario:This article discusses the replacement of computers with human for certain tasks. Many tasks still baffle even the most powerful electronic brain. AskForCents, a computer service which provides internet users with various types of information, is an example of this replacement. Members of the website can ask and answer questions without the inflexibility of an algorithm-driven system. The premise is that humans are vastly superior to computers at tasks such as pattern recognition.