Some very good points. I mean, what is the problem we are trying to solve here? Fully emulate a human? That's worthless, we have an overabundance of humans alr

Some very good points. I mean, what is the problem we are trying to solve here? Fully emulate a human? That's worthless, we have an overabundance of humans already and it's easy to make more. Or are we trying to come up with something that performs our tasks without us having to think or do any work and presumably makes life richer and more pleasant? Well that's a different problem, and yes, we have been automating that forever and are arguably getting better at it. (I say arguably because "richer and more pleasant" are relative as it turns out). The argument over what constitutes "intelligence" is not an insignificant one either. My dog likely thinks I'm stupid because I don't eat butter all day and shave and go to work. And come to think of it, he might be right. Point being, we often conceive of intelligence as "having better ways to do or get what we would". But then there is abstraction, longer term planning, higher order thinking, which in the end almost certainly will be incomprehensible to humans.