Human Brain vs Artificial Intelligence Systems

Artificial Intelligence has been assuming significance beyond academic debates in the past couple of years. Google and Facebook have claimed that they now have face recognition systems based on Artificial Intelligence that can beat humans at the task. There are reports that many of the text chats are now manned by Artificial Intelligence systems without the user's knowledge, thus surpassing the Turing test criterion. Proponents of Artificial Intelligence like Ray Kurzweil has been predicting that within the next 30 years, AI will enable immortality through a concept known as Singularity, where we will be able to upload our brain on to a cloud and then onwards, our thoughts live on forever. On the other end of the spectrum, people like Stephen Hawking predict Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of human civilization with computer systems eventually overpowering humans.