Going to fail. Simulating human thought on a computer is not going to happen. Humans do not know how the mind works, so they can not model it on a chip.
Regardless. They will say they’ve done it and millions will believe it.
Google “purchased” a quantum based “computer” and they still don’t know it works or if it is “real”.
Making a machine think like “us” is not going to happen. Making a machine that can solve problems and design more of itself will lead to an intelligence explosion where we will not have the foggiest idea how a machine came to conclusions.
In other words, we will have created a new species of sorts whose “thoughts” or “thinking” is as different to us as ours is to an ant.
Before that, we will engineer semi-organic brains that grow in a lab and can interface with machines.
You should be more careful about saying things that “will never happen” in science.
There were people who wanted to close the patent office in the early 1900’s because everything that could be invented already had been invented... they had the steam engine, after all (real example they used)
I can see a computer getting *really* smart with enough processing power. I think our brain works (in some ways) like a computer and that the reason it seems like we only use a small percentage is because the rest is operating system.
I can imagine the power it would take to control the millions of nerves in a persons body such that a time pinprick on your foot immediately becomes the highest order process above all other processes to cause you to react and jump.