Who is smarter? Human or computer?

Of course humans are smarter; they possess real intelligence. Computers are machines that are programmed by humans to perform tasks.

I still think that human beings are smarter than the computer. As you said, the computers are created by us. There is a famous saying: The imagination is much more important than the knowledge. The computer can not create something or have the imagination. So we are much more powerful than them. The computers are professional to do the calculation and the repeating work. They are just machines. I love China

Hi vivianchen, The difficulty in decidiing whether a computer (call it a machine) is conscious is in deciding what consciousness is. To begin with are we talking about self-awareness, or the ability to respond to internal and external stimuli? In the first case, I don’t think current computers are self-aware, tho in my 20+ years experience as a computer programmer I sometimes wondered when the machine was fighting me over in whatever program I was writing. This, of course, was just an illusion–an emotional reaction on my part, and in the end I won. In the second case, yes, computers are conscious. How else would they know what key was pressed or the details of other input devices? How do you know when you hit your thumb with a hammer and it hurts? Is not your brain a computer of sorts? Whatever the case, we still don’t know what consciousness truly is. But I believe that consciousness is a property of the universe. How else could it exist. But what is its exact nature? For consciouness to exist in a single entity, be it human or machanical/electronic, all that is required is a sufficiently complex "brain" (note the quotes) that can individualize itself from the universe. Yet I still cannot "prove" the the people around me are conscious. I believe they are because I am conscious (so I believe), and a very similar machine. And, yes, we are machines. So what is to prevent other "types" of machines to be "conscious" and one day soon, self-aware? I believe it will happen given enough time. It may have already happened elsewhere in the universe. I am concluding, anyway thank you very much dear friend...

I think Human is smarter than the computer.We are the ones who invent the computer.We are the one to write the logic for all the computers moments.A computer cannot work by itself.It needs our support.It is just made out of transistors.Yes in games the computer beats us most of the time.But it is not the computer is smart.A smart person has written the logic in the game to beat us.

I do believe that humans are smarter than machines, after all the humans are the ones who invented and created these machines. The ones who created it knows the strengths and weaknesses of what they created that's why every year a better computer or cellular phone are released in the market. You sometimes cannot beat a computer because you don't know the algorithms used to run to run it. But if you know the tricks, you'll surely beat it. Robots seem smarter than us but they lose battery power or electric power, without batteries they won't work. We humans don't need batteries to do anything. All we need is eat, drink, sleep or have a good time to recharge.

That is human,because humans came first and they invented computers.so its we humans in the first post.secondly they never think only we who think.so its 100% sure we are the best not computers.

The computer may beat you at games but remember it can only put out what is put into it. So somewhere someone knew the strategy to these games and knew from what plays you made what strategy to use to beat you. For that reason alone is why when we are told "it was a computer mistake" we know better. Computers don't make mistakes only humans do.

Since human's created computers, we humans are better. The reason why you keep losing at the video games, you just haven't played long enough yet. Eventually, you'll play so much until you will create an instant winning streak for yourself. Remember practice makes perfect. Although I don't know all of the intricate details of how a computer program works, I do know enough to ask for help, and I learn by reading. It is sad that some folks think that because they know more than someone in a particular area, that it makes them SMARTER than others. That really isn't the case. Everyone is smarter than someone else in a particular area. For instance, Michael Jordan is better and smarter at playing basketball, than he is at playing baseball. Tiger Woods is better and smarter at playing golf than he is at playing baseball. I'm sure that Tiger Woods would easily beat Michael Jordan at golf, and vice versa, Michael Jordan would easily beat Tiger Woods at a game of basketball.

It is the way computers are desiged that makes them smarter then we are. In reality it is man who has desiged the gaming software and so on. For this I don't agree that a computer is smarter then a man. Man has feelings, can understand people whereas computer is just a thing created by man himself for his enjoyment. It is no where greater then the person who has created it.

Yes, we can say that humans are smarter because they created the computer, but I will say not all humans. I thought about the same issue when I played chess with computer. I faliled all the times, I couldn't think of many possibilites which computer have in mind. So, I will say sometiems computer is smarter than humans.

Human will always be smarter then computer because we made them. On some levels such as calculating, computers may be faster but Humans can always overpower computers as we are the inventors. Inventors will always be smarter then their inventions unless we create like a superhuman or something. Very interesting topic...

you loosexto your computer and you call yourself not smart? of course you smarter than computer,it is just you dont know the key of playing..come on beat the computer as well..i always winning when i played games in computer.

The man who invented computer is smater. what ever the computer can perform it cant do the thing that man does. Robots can be invented & can be asked to do tasks. Its is impossible for it to do want a man can. For us good have given "6th SENSE" which can never be transferred to computers.

In most ways humans are smarter than computers since we invented computers. Some may say that computers are smarter because they can calculate faster and do many other operations faster than humans but humans are the ones that created the software fore these programs. By the way this is only my view and everyone is going to have to their own opinion.

A computer cannot use its feelings to reason things out. It just what it has been programmed to do. Our brains are sophisticated computers - very complex and can do many things a computer cannot do. But in a way, us humans will most often do things we have been programmed to do. - Derek

Of course, we are smarter than computers. As what you have mentioned, human created computers. It's just that we have our own limitations.

hi vivianchen, apart from creator-created relationship, computers are less smarter as at a time they do only the thing they are doing like an idiot. whereas a human being however small he/she may be has so many things in the brain that are sufficient to use much of the smartness/intelligent.Above all the computers do not any hassle due to emotion which often makes human less smarter. So it is better not to compare us with a dumb till computers do not get intelligent.

Human is smarter than computer. You know what, human creating computers. But computer, no matter how many and how sophisticated, absolutely can't create human. I don't think computer can own its own knowledge without human input. The only fact is computer faster than human in thinking and calculation. That's just because computer is just a machine without feelings. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.

I think both human is smarter. In the olden days peoples have less number of tensions they lived their lives very happily. during this 20th century lot of things are invented. science and technology improved.so we got an amzing machine called computer. still improvement works re going on. But computer is not able to do all works . but we can make the computer to do so. but human hav the ability to do any work. so human is smarter.

I do think human is smarter than computer from overall. If in the future,when we create robots who might even smarter than us! maybe, we should call them "mechanical life" .