AI is achievable,but it will bewitch more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that deem like peopleTo state that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, and far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos would be uncontroversial. The brain is the only kind of thing capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there,or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples descend because of the curvature of space-time, and that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong,or that it itself exists. Nor are its unique abilities confined to such cerebral matters. The cold, physical fact is that it is the only kind of thing that can propel itself into space and back without harm, and predict and prevent a meteor strike on itself,or cool objects to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or detect others of its kind across galactic distances.
But no brain on soil is yet close to knowing what brains do in order to achieve any of that functionality. The enterprise of achieving it artificially – the field of "artificial general intelligence" or AGI – has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence.
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Source: theguardian.com