Will AI Beat Humans at the Game of Being Human? - HPE Enterprise Forward

AI has achieved a win experts once thought wasn't possible. Harvard University was recently awarded a 28 million grant to discover why human brains are so much better at learning and pattern recognition than artificial intelligence (AI). Dispensed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the funding will fuel a quest to make AI systems faster, smarter, and match or outperform human neural networks. The steep challenge in this quest is the enormous complexity of the human brain and its billions of neurons and trillions of synaptic interconnections with electrochemical signaling. The other challenge: There is no accepted theory of mind that describes what thought--the gist of intelligence--actually is.