>>11701315>You don't have to have a genius IQ to calculate a square roots to ten places in a second, you just have to drill your neurons into doing it fast.That's not very impressive. My laptop can compute the square root of a hundred million numbers in half a second. That's a difference of a lot of orders of magnitude.
>The issue is the human brain is not all evolved to do precise arithmetic, as it was never very useful until the past few thousand years.That's not enough to explain it.
It's part of the answer. A lot of our skills are pretty much hardwired. That doesn't count in favor of brains, it means they're really inflexible.
The other part is that brains just aren't that good at certain kinds of tasks. They adapted much better to theorem-proving than to arithmetic, compared to electronic computers, despite neither task existing in the ancestral environment.
Even when working from the ground up, making artificial neural networks do arithmetic is surprisingly hard. It seems a basic problem with the architecture.
We've had more success emulating neural networks with electronic computers than the other way around, and I don't think that's entirely because the other way around isn't useful.
