> What makes you assume we're smart enough to fully understand how it is that we work and reproduce it non-biologically Absolutely nothing. I believe we'll eve

> What makes you assume we're smart enough to fully understand how it is that we work and reproduce it non-biologically Absolutely nothing. I believe we'll eventually make artificial intelligence, and I doubt we'll really understand it when we make it. Human intelligence evolved naturally as a result of a statistical process. When we make artificial intelligence it's totally likely that it will be the result of some human controlled statistical process that looks nothing like traditional software. > Could we build a star? Almost certainly eventually. > Would we build a star? Probably not. But building a star would require vast resources, and I'm not sure what we'd get out of it. There are lots of stars. Artificial intelligence really isn't comparable on this front.