I don't think an artificial intelligence has to resemble anything we would recognize as human intelligence, while still being "intelligent". The motivations of

I don't think an artificial intelligence has to resemble anything we would recognize as human intelligence, while still being "intelligent". The motivations of humans and the motivations of computers are very different. If we can give a computer motivation, as well as a way to act and react within an environment, and a framework for learning (neural networks?) then what it "thinks" will be determined by the experience of its own existence. I'm not sure we're there yet.