Michio Kaku, the difference between your BRAIN and a COMPUTER.
Michio Kaku realizes that the brain is a pattern matching machine which was the conclusion I reached decades ago, not that I knew how the brain did it.
The very first program I wrote (February/March 1960) was too big for the IBM 650. The problem was solved by replacing a large chunk of code with a table lookup which essentially is pattern matching, I had a hard time conceptualizing that “dumb” algorithms were more efficient than “smart” (boolean) algorithms. You don’t need to know the reason why, you just need the right answer.
For a long time the criticism of neural network AI was that it could not explain how it got the answer because one could not backtrack the reasoning. The scientific method does not backtrack the reasoning, it just verifies that the result matches the hypothesis.
The Captain
thanks Michio Kaku for confirming his pattern matching hypothesis.