Despite the Hype, Artificial Intelligence Remains Inferior to the Human Brain

... devices and algorithms, the brain is software and hardware rolled into one? Too much uncertainty remains. If neuroscience is an inchoate field riddled with myriad questions and gaps, what of its simpler subset — artificial intelligence? Can an embryonic technology invented by humans suddenly spring to life and threaten mankind? If we cannot fully understand how the human brain works or even define sentience, why are we cutting and pasting plots from sci-fi flicks onto our reality? There is a hypothetical ...