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It will take more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that think like people.

In the October 3rd edition of the Guardian, David Deutsch writes: "The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

"The field of "artificial general intelligence" or AGI–has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence. Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible."
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Scientists say it’s inevitable: artificial life is on the way. A leading US researcher says we’ll be able to create human-level artificial intelligence by 2029. Does this mean that machines will take over?

In BBC News, Helen Briggs quotes inventor Ray Kurzweil as saying, “[?There’s] not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us?We’re already a human machine civilization; we use our technology to expand our physical and mental horizons and this will be a further extension of that.”

Kurzweil thinks that machines and people will eventually merge, through implanting devices in people’s bodies. We’re already doing this with people who are locked in by disease or injury. To abductees with implants, this sounds familiar!
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