From the course: Programming Foundations: Fuzzy Logic
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Issues with logical thinking
From the course: Programming Foundations: Fuzzy Logic
Issues with logical thinking
- [Instructor] As we have discussed, computers only think in ones and zeros or trues and false. This issue can be limiting in what a computer can know. It is still possible to program a computer to be intelligent though. Well, to an extent. If you have ever played 20 questions with someone, you know that only being able to answer yes or no questions can still make it possible to narrow down the answers. It just might take a little longer than normal. This is how a computer works. Only knowing yes or no questions and a computer can seem intelligent. Even if they are only reciting facts that have been stored in their memory and then deducing other data, based on what they know, it's easy to think that a computer is thinking when they aren't. Humans, on the other hand, have the ability to retain information for years and make correlations about related information. Recalling information from the human memory, compared to recalling information in a computer may be slower, but the immense…
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