Wrapping Our Primate Brains Around AI's Next Grand Challenge

You could argue that artificial intelligence (AI) got started many years ago with a grand challenge. That, of course, was Alan Turing's "Imitation Game," which he presented in his seminal 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Essentially, it involved building machines that can behave indistinguishably from the way a thinker behaves. In the example that Turing provides, that behavior is entirely focused on human (or humanlike) conversation. In many ways, that grand challenge is already history.