The headline of the article, "Is Artificial Intelligence Lost in the Woods?", in the recent MIT Technology Review is compelling. I began reading it expecting that the author, David Gelernter, might be outlining some new research into what makes emulating the intelligence of the human brain / body so daunting. Instead, it is an incoherent rant that basically boils down to an argument that computers will never literally be human beings, and even if they behave exactly as intelligent, it doesn't matter.
While investigating Gelernter further online, I was happy to find that Ray Kurzweil layed the smack down in a recorded debate with him by clarifying that whether computers will ever truly be conscious in the exact same way humans are is a philosophical question, not a scientific one, and that Gelernter is rigging the argument in his favor by refusing to accept any objective way to verify that a computer has become conscious.
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