i think this would be the best place to discuss this
in another thread the point was raised that the fastest CPU is the Human Brain not wanting to hijack a thread i thought i would post a new one
The Human Brain is the Fastest Cpu
now thats open to debate. seeing as a brain acts as both a hard drive and CPU also.
also what is 928346*98236?
im sure the computer can do that faster than the human brain hell try doing what super pi does in 30s in your brain.
i would suggest that a human brain is more like a 100 core processor with a lot of them dedicated to individual functions that wouldnt be much good at doing other things (cpu cant act as a Gpu)
what makes something the fastest CPU?
You see the computer CPU is based on john von neuman model or who so ever, our brain is a network or neurons which are working parallel in nature, so looking at this the CPU and a human brain can simply be not compared.
Talking of AI well its simply conventional AI, i.e. its just simply based on conditioning which is not truly AI more like of knowledge base attached to an expert system.
Now as I also work with Artificial Neural Networks in which we mimic the human brain, these can be compared to each other. We have usually three layers in an ANN (input, hidden[maybe more than 1], output) and all the input layer neurons are connected with the hidden layer neurons (maybe or may not be the same case for every ANN), then all the hidden layer neurons are connected with the output layer neurons hence forming a fully connected artificial neural network. Then we assign a numeric value to each of these connections and we start training our network on a specific pattern, basically adjusting these weights so that on the output layer neurons we get an output > 0. There are mathematical functions which are used to adjust the weights or used to learn a specific pattern (backpropagation) and it takes some time to fully adjust the weights. We usually provide a threshold value so that we can stop the training. So this kind of neural network can be compared with a human brain. This is known as computational intelligence which we put into ANNs.
Further more there are many types of ANNs, feed forward, feed backward, recurrent neural networks, instar, outstar, Bayesian networks and etc etc etc.
So in the end the question:
Is the Human Brain the Fastest CPU?
well we haven't fully understood the power of a human brain, so at the moment can't really give a yes or no answer. But from my personal experience I can tell that ANNs can be better. Maybe not now but they will be one day (I'm trying). I think this was pretty much of an explanation.
If you want to read some more go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Neural_Networks
Also check in the references links.