> It's a pretty amazing accomplishment for humanity to have developed systems as complex as modern jumbo jets with "brains" that are essentially more reliable t

> It's a pretty amazing accomplishment for humanity to have developed systems as complex as modern jumbo jets with "brains" that are essentially more reliable than the ones that created them. Load the airplane's "brain" with algorithms for how to survive, cooperate, adapt and replicate under every conceivable condition and you'll end up with a comparable system more complicated and worse-performing than ourselves. Not really a fair comparison. Self-driving cars (and robotics) would be better examples, since they attempt to emulate a broader swath of our sensory capabilities.