@sickburnbro @matty @Jonny @mjdigspigs And we don't even understand how the human mind works yet. We have no real understanding of consciousness or sentience.

We just copied an interesting structure that's found in the brain, the way neurons network with each other in the brain, stuck on a simple model of how they might interact and found at first interesting (letter recognition) and more and more surprising and possibly useful results.

But to call it thinking as an AI is a *huge* stretch - that sells!

This structure of networked neurons looks like it can power lower animals and their ability to move in the world, adapt to circumstances, find food, escape predators.

But we're a long way from human cognition as far as I can see.
We don't even know if it's this network structure is what leads to human level cognition. That could be a completely separate process we don't know about that's built *on top* of the existing network and took time to evolve.

Perhaps Pensrose's and others' idea of quantum mechanics being fundamentally involved in consciousness. We are just starting to understand quantum computing so maybe that will be the way forward.

Regardless, it still is an exciting field. Hype aside.