As with other areas of cutting edge research, most non-experts often have little choice but to resort to woefully inadequate simplification. 'Any sufficiently

As with other areas of cutting edge research, most non-experts often have little choice but to resort to woefully inadequate simplification. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic', and all that. The best way I've come up with to explain the current state of AI is, "we can do tricks by hiding multiple immense databases behind the scenes and having supercomputers run complex searches among them, but we probably won't be able to fully model even a mouse brain for at least 10 years... and at that point we'll likely have learned enough new things about brain function to push it another 10 years out."