Re:Hrmmmm (Score 1)

I totally agree. Firstly, replicating human intelligence in 20 years is a totally unrealistic goal. We are not even at the level of understanding the functioning of the nervous system of a worm with several dozens of neurons, let alone a constantly changing multimillion-cell human brain. I can pretty much picture computers that will behave more or less like a 6-month old human baby in 20 years, but it will be at least another couple of centuries before I can meaningfully discuss the literary style of James Joyce with a machine. Secondly, why the hell bother? Computers possessing human intelligence will inherit human flaws (nondeterminism, emotionality, pursuit of own goals, reliance on intuition instead of computation) and it is precisely these flaws we want to avoid in the so called "artificial intelligence". The main goal of AI nowadays should be to help us make sense of all that data flood we have to deal with. Instead of chasing the golden grail of emulating humans we should try to find good algorithms which will search available resources for relevant data based on human sentence-like queries. I think THAT, and not artificial humans or intelligent nanobots, is a realistic goal for the next two decades.