As short as I cand add to this (even if I'm half a year late to the party), is that I personally do not see what we use today as actual "AI", since all I see is some code that alters itself and needs a huge amount of memory to store all the possible logical paths it sees. Kind of a decision tree of decision trees of... more decision trees?
I've more been following the neurological network-based AI development, area with actual potential to create a digitalized intelligence akin to ours, but the catch there is that we do not yet have the ability to even handle the amount of information that would be needed to just digitalize the neurons of a single brain. We're talking I think some billions of neurons, *each* of them having some 10k possible connections, a weird kind of permanence, with the way memory works, the whole shebang would be kind of impossible to simulate even if given the entire processing power of all hardware on Earth at present. We're just not there yet in terms of hardware.
It gets even funnier when we ended up calling computer-driven NPCs or players in strategy games "AIs", when they were not much more than a set of algorithms that worked against each other. Sure, the algorithms got much more complex and we gave them the ability to change themselves and each other, but that is still not actually intelligent...
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