To clarify, I'm not saying human-like AI is impossible or unreasonably far off. The author seems to be implying that what current NNs show is a viable form of

To clarify, I'm not saying human-like AI is impossible or unreasonably far off. The author seems to be implying that what current NNs show is a viable form of intelligence that just happens to "think" in a different way that we need to figure out. I'm saying this particular manifestation of trained behavior is not viable for expanding into human-level intelligence, as there's no hope of meta-cognition (I don't use the term "self-consciousness" purely because it's overloaded with unreasonable fields). NNs would have to fundamentally change or be replaced in order to gain such. When we do achieve machine conceptual cognition & meta-cognition, it will be a system that will not "think" like feed-forward trained NNs, even if it shares some history or composition with that architecture.