My personal take is that while humanlike AI may be developed, it won't happen on computers as we know them today. The fundamental mechanics of computation and t

My personal take is that while humanlike AI may be developed, it won't happen on computers as we know them today. The fundamental mechanics of computation and thought appear to be different enough that I suspect an accurate simulation of humanlike thought may very well be out somewhere in NP. This is not to say that machines capable of humanlike AI won't be invented; they just won't be recognizable as computers. They might not even make computers obsolete. If a humanlike AI's fundamental model of thought is closer to ours than to a computer's, then the AI might turn out not to be very much better at math-oriented tasks than we are (proportionally speaking). It would therefore still need to use computers in mostly the same ways we do. Both types of machines might be incorporated into a single unit -AI on the left, computer on the right, for example- to speed up that process.