Should Artificial Intelligence Copy the Human Brain?

That debate comes down to whether or not the current approaches to building AI are enough. With a few tweaks and the application of enough brute computational force, will the technology we have now be capable of true "intelligence," in the sense we imagine it exists in an animal or a human? On one side of this debate are the proponents of "deep learning"--an approach that, since a landmark paper in 2012 by a trio of researchers at the University of Toronto, has exploded in popularity. While far from the only approach to artificial intelligence, it has demonstrated abilities beyond what previous AI tech could accomplish. The "deep" in "deep learning" refers to the number of layers of artificial neurons in a network of them.