What happens when computers start thinking like humans?

By the year 2020, we have come across many sci-fi dramas, movies, and even books that talk about what will happen when robots start to act like humans, well most of them say apocalypse or that they will rule humans.

But can we also say that if somehow that day comes, our art can only be the way by which we can differentiate ourselves, humans, from those computers? You see the way a human mind works, it is observed that a single human brain can store up to 2.5 million gigabytes of memory. Here a large, a very large part gets wasted, and also a significant part goes into remembering all those emotional memories which if we see it from a practical and progressive view, are not gonna take us anywhere rest somewhat is utilized in learning while on the other hand computers can use almost each and every percentage of their brain in learning, their only limit is the amount of storage they can have, and with the speed at which we are advancing technologically, I don’t think that day is far when a computer will have a storage capacity way more than that of humans.

Now coming back to the topic will all these advances and their capacities to learn so much so fast ever cause any sort of threat to humans?

The answer is both yes and no!.

You see the only thing no computer can ever do is imagination , they work on algorithms and no algorithm can ever make them learn to dream and imagine. Even a five-year-old sitting in his nursery class and dreaming about being a superman can be a very difficult task for a computer if asked to do it on its own. Yes, they can learn from us, and they can even replicate that imagination but by creating their own vision, I don’t think they will be able to do it.

Coming back to art, can computers make art?

Yes, and they make a sort of art that is nearly impossible to make for humans. Here’s an example- this is called the Mandelbrot set. With its fizzing fringe of crystal-like microforms blossoming out of a conjunction of black circles, this fractal pattern looks crazy but is the outcome of geometrical calculations. When zoomed up thousands and thousands of times into this art, it was found that it had each and every fringe different than the other no matter wheresoever and at whatsoever zooming point it lies. Such art forms can be really tricky for humans due to their obvious physical limitations but where they aren’t limited is in imagining.

People who live in culture-they learn something from their culture, they travel, and explore another culture-they learn something from that culture, then most of the time they may or may not adopt it as it is but at some point in time they definitely bend them as per their own convenience. This variation differs from person to person which computers cannot experience or calculate because they might have thousands of algorithms on which they work and those thousands of algorithms may have millions of ways to solve but still they are just millions and as per the butterfly effect of the chaos theory we experience and get the opportunity to change future if not billions, then into millions of different possibilities. This limitation of computers and our ability to think out of the box makes our art an exception, an exception that no computer will ever be able to make.

There can never be the next Mona Lisa or a painting like The Starry Night because those were made by people, people who could dream and think as no ordinary person could. They had those emotions which they expressed in the form of art. Can computers do that? Well not for the next century.