Intelligent Computers, will they ever exist?

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Technology has revolutionized the world we live in today. Technology is becoming more complex, more powerful and faster in a shorter period of time. As Intel has stated, they create a majorly more powerful processor every two years. As we see the tremendous change in technology that has occurred in the past ten years, I believe that someday we will have computer processors that can function better and faster than the human brain.
There are a couple measures to be taken care of before a computer can become as intelligent, as powerful and as fast as a human brain. The majority of these measures work together to make it clear to us that a computer will have to become more like a brain. Although computers have become far more powerful than they used to, they still have a long way to go. Computers can process algorithms and memorize large numbers, words, formulas, proofs etc., yet it does not understand things the way humans do. It will know a proof but it does not know why we would want to know the proof or what the proof is for (in reality). They are also 'bottlenecked', meaning that they have to send the data to the processor before sending it someplace else, unlike the brain, which sends it directly to where it is needed. The brain also has redundancy, meaning that when it fails to send the data from one place to another, it can send the same data from another place faster than we would notice. Although it seems as if a computer as good as a brain is far away, we have evidence that we are getting towards the so called 'right path'.
To begin with, there are a couple computers, chips and inventions that are already working and being worked on that are going towards the right path. In Africa in 2007 a college student created a chip t...

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