There's a very interesting question of if we can have a human-communicating, non-human intelligence. It's likely that our first AI will be something like that:

There's a very interesting question of if we can have a human-communicating, non-human intelligence. It's likely that our first AI will be something like that: a mind which is internally very unlike our own, but which has a substantial fraction devoted to being able to explain the human understandable versions of its thoughts. The scary part is that to us, it likely will feel very human, but to it, we'll likely be nothing but steering ants by laying out sugar.