Comment by Koshkin
8 years ago
Modeling the human brain is just one of the directions of the AI research, possibly not the most important one, even, at this point. On the other hand, the "super-intelligence" everyone is thinking about will be nothing like the human mind.
I have trouble believing that evolution has been that inefficient. That we can brutally outperform the human brain at 64-bit arithmetic--no surprise. But to accomplish the same with creativity and problem solving? Not holding my breath.