Oh give me a break, here we are 30 years after Zork, and the A.I. engines for language in top flight video games is hardly any better. (Serious gamers, correct me if I am wrong).
We have NO idea how the brain does what it does. The more we know, the more we know what we don’t know.
Agreed. As a developer I have followed the field of AI since the early 80’s and we are no where close and certainly not 5 years off from having “self aware” software. There will have to be some radical departure in hardware and software to make any progress.
Until a computer can experience the world the way we do it can never really become aware or learn on its own. Things like pleasure, sadness, worry, love, intuition all come from being human and simply can’t be programmed.