The human mind has an incredible capacity to grasp data. Facial recognition software being developed by various researchers is showing humans just how difficult it is to get a computer to do what human beings tend to do naturally. Think of the sheer number of people you are able to simply take one look at and correctly place an identity on them.

For the computer to do the same thing, it takes yards and yards or written code. While early humans did not have quite the same population to go through in terms of identification, they did need to be able to make out the difference between potentially harmful and useful plants and animals.

Today a human being can be blasted with an astonishing number of faces from real life and social media. The news helps us see more people than we would in our daily lives. Apparently it is possible for a human being to process many thousands of faces instantly, unlike a computer that is being programmed to do the same task.

Recent scientific studies at the University of York had scientists proclaiming that humans can recall at least five thousand faces in their lifetime. No small feat, especially when compared to a computer’s nascent abilities in the same field.