Freedombase Introduction

However, once we have told a computer what to do, it can do it over and over millions of times and get it right every
time.

But people are smart

A person can work stuff out for themself. A person can take a vague idea and work out the rest, and even if a person
makes a mistake they can realise their error and find a way to fix it.

However, people aren't very good at repetitive stuff. They change things, they lose interest, they make mistakes, and
they forget things. A person CANNOT do something over and over millions of times and get it right every time. People
are, in a sense, unreliable (at least when it comes to doing repetitive stuff.)

A little intelligence

For decades we have been trying to make computers more like people; the entire field of artificial intelligence focuses
on doing that, using many different methods. The problem is, that we want computers to be able to do the creative,
'work it out' stuff that people can do; but once a computer has worked it out, we need it to do it like that - reliably -
millions and millions of times over; something that people cannot do. So while we want to give computers SOME of the
abilities that people have, we do not want to give them all of the 'abilities' that people have.

In order to make computers smarter, we have to reproduce at least some aspects of how the human mind works,
working inside a computer. Given that we don't fully know how the mind works, that could be difficult to do. But we do
have some models of how the mind works, that look pretty good, and make sense, and can be implemented in a
computer.