Current computer applications typically have a narrow focus.

• Many spectacular successes
• Application domains narrow

Applications rarely try to mimic processing within the human brain

• Neural networks utilize a rough model of neurons communicating with each other
  • Systems use rough models
  • Usually communication is one-way from a starting layer to an ending layer
• To date, researchers have only a rough understanding of some brain-related activities
  • Understanding brain processing still in its infancy
  • Since nature of neuron interactions and mechanisms of computer processing are quire different, computer applications may achieve best success if computers do not try to mimic brain functioning

With narrow focus, few people would argue that current applications can think;
Current computers cannot think

• New successes arise frequently
• New approaches/insights drive additional applications

Since nature of intelligence unclear, hard to know if future computers will have intelligence or not.

• Must agree that definition of intelligence allows the possibility
• Must resolve how to test for intelligence
• Must seen continued development of computers and applications

created: 7 January 2007 last revised: 9 January 2007

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