Are computers ever going to be more intellligent then humans?

When I was born

computers

really didn't even exist

During the moon landing

the Apolo spacecraft

had less computational power

then my handheld calculator

in the 1980's

the Turing test was all the vogue

and computers

were considered simply

sophisiticated adding machines

the 1990's

heralded

fuzzy logic

and microprocessors

and the internet

the 2000's

have made the world a glabal vilage

computers can beat masters in chess

and solve

mathematical problems

posed by mathemeticians centuries ago

chaos theory itself

would be impossibe

without computers

does the future

hold

computers

with lateral thinking

and problem solving capabilities

better then the average mortal

and then what?

Think in terms of Hofstaedter book

the mind's eye

with nested heirarchies

Are computers ever going to be more intellligent then humans?norton 2008

chris h demonstrates the standard misconceptions about machine capabilities. The whole point of a machine (*any* machine) is to perform tasks that you cannot do yourself, or at least not as efficiently. For computers, that means tasks traditionally associated with human thought, be it simple arithmatic or more abstract problem solving requiring superior intelligence. The point at which you choose to call it "intelligent" is largely arbitrary. If a robot could go grocery shopping for its owner using only a list of general preferences, is that intelligent? Maybe. How about if it could design and build an improved version of itself? Definitely.