Present-day computers are mainly sequential machines.... there's some parallelism, but it's always very limited, when compared to the parallelizing power of analog neuron "computing".
Until we can mimic the millions (more like billions) of parallel processing centers and their interactions with each other, we won't be able to compare our computers with a functioning brain.
Also, it is my guess that, as soon as such a fully parallel machine is turned on, we'll see it behaving almost like a human child, perhaps a baby.... it will require some sort of "sensory input", not just text from a keyboard, but also images... it may become very adept very quickly and not suffer from path degradation like humans do during their teen years... because of that, it may come to suffer from some form of overload...
Desires and feelings could arise, too... oh well, I hear there's a new movie coming to theaters called Ex-Machina... according to the trailer, it does seem to explore some of these questions...
Until we can mimic the millions (more like billions) of parallel processing centers and their interactions with each other, we won't be able to compare our computers with a functioning brain.
Also, it is my guess that, as soon as such a fully parallel machine is turned on, we'll see it behaving almost like a human child, perhaps a baby.... it will require some sort of "sensory input", not just text from a keyboard, but also images... it may become very adept very quickly and not suffer from path degradation like humans do during their teen years... because of that, it may come to suffer from some form of overload...
Desires and feelings could arise, too... oh well, I hear there's a new movie coming to theaters called Ex-Machina... according to the trailer, it does seem to explore some of these questions...
