I see it as similar to flight, once we stopped trying to mimic nature exactly (flapping planes) we started to not only make progress, but went beyond what natu

I see it as similar to flight, once we stopped trying to mimic nature exactly (flapping planes) we started to not only make progress, but went beyond what nature can do in flight (eg supersonic) I think that the biggest breakthrough we'll have in AI will come from a similar break away from copying the brain. Inspired by nature, not dictated by it.