Well said, Bob
I agree with Bob: what's fundamentally lacking from 'human-like' artificial intelligence is the kind of associative, and pseudo-creative algorithms with which we conduct our daily lives. To say that reproducing human intelligence in a machine is the ultimate goal, however, is a misguided notion.
Human intelligence is simply a fancy sort of Basic Input Output System, and reproducing a higher form of intelligence would therefore be a far greater accomplishment. There is nothing special, spiritual or divine about our brains - we merely learn the most productive way to respond to our senses and emotions over time. The seed for OUR development is the survival instinct, however, we now find ourselves in a position to provide whatever seed we choose to machines so that they may evolve in a completely different (not lesser, equal or better) way, towards any goal imaginable.
For the time being though, even if we had cracked the biological 'life' algorithm (no doubt used in our own creation), the kind of digital technology to which we would apply it would yield results vastly different from what we might have expected.
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