I don't know what surprises me more, people saying that the bots are dumb or people saying that they're alive. I'm no expert, but from a rudimentary understandi

I don't know what surprises me more, people saying that the bots are dumb or people saying that they're alive. I'm no expert, but from a rudimentary understanding of how they work, they're neither and far from both extremes. If you want a heuristic that suggests we're not near: the fact that we do understand what computers do much better. Brains are still mostly black boxes.