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Woah! Let's not get carried away there, bub.

adornoe@... 8th Oct 2009

We have created a technology that is potentially even more intelligent than us (if you consider mankind to be intelligent).

I understand that some people can get carried away with superlatives and with fanaticism and sensationalism, but hold your horses there.

There has not been a machine, or computer or software or any combination of all of the above that can come even close to human intelligence. In fact, no computer/software combo can come even close to the intelligence of a dog. Not yet anyway.

Artificial Intelligence researchers have been trying for the last 40-50 years to emulate "intelligence", but as of today, they are almost as far from attaining that goal as they were some 30 years ago. In fact, AI hasn't even been able to match the intelligence of an ant.