Re:Hold your horses! (Score 2, Interesting)

What you fail to realize is that the NN used in AI (aka. ANN) are highly unlikely to have more than a shallow resemblence to the NN in real organic brains. Further, it is not given that you need to emulate the primitive parts of the brain to attain 'higher intelligence'. In fact, I think people have focused way too much on the primitive aspects of ANN. It has been time upon that is nothing but regression/compression/function approximation depending on your academic background. You would think the different variations of the 'Free Lunch Theorem' should have caused people to catch on sooner. The sad thing about AI is that most of the community seems to be doing situation specific regression or optimization, with no plan on how that could eventually get us closer to 'higher intelligence'. As I'm currently writing my msc. thesis on almost precisely this subject, I have put considerable thought into it. Admittedly mostly because I find it extremely fascinating, it would be all too easy writing another piece praising method X. The poor quality of msc. theses is another pet peeve of mine.