Is the Human Brain the world's fastest computer?
October 9th 2008 20:34
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From: Merinews.
Most people have something like a Pentium computer running Windows, or a Macintosh. A computer like this can execute approximately 100 million instructions per second. Your particular machine might be twice that fast or half that fast, but that’s the point.
The fastest computer in the world is much faster than that and it’s sitting right on top of your shoulders! The human brain is an amazing computing device and the fastest processor available right now. Let me give you an example:
Your desktop computer is just starting to get to the point where it can ’understand’ speech and take dictation, translating spoken words into written words. It can only understand one speaker, and that speaker has to train it for about 20 minutes, and the dictation software will still make a lot of mistakes. So, 100 million instructions per second can barely handle dictation.
Your brain, on the other hand, can understand any number of speakers. It needs no training and will make zero mistakes. It may even be able to understand multiple languages! And the speech processing portion of your brain is just one small part of the whole package -- your brain can also process complex visual images, control your entire body, understand conceptual problems and create new ideas.
BlueGene/L remains at the top of the list at 360 trillion operations per second, which is pretty fast...but it’s still not as fast as your brain.
We are all pretty fast, don't you think?, let's keep it that way.
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