Technoilgy has come along way in the 20 odd years. And I think your right, AI might be more achievable, but everyone is going to concentrate more on curing AIDS and cancer, because they are more important. But who's to say that an AI wouldnt be useful as well, have a huge number of AI's running at one time like a huge supercomputer, working towards curing AIDS/cancer, AI's never need to eat/sleep or stop do they? Meaning advances could be made without people having to spend as long on the subject as they would have to. But I suppose any real form of intelligence wouldn't start off with a mind like Stephen Hawking, they would have to be taught, which I would imagine take time, unless considering that it is computer controlled intelligence, it could be created with a vast knowledge of things, i think Im going abit deep inot the subject, but I think that these are things that should be taken into account when disscussing AI.
EDIT:It seems that there are more comlpex ways of creating inteligence, take a look at
this, its beyond my understanding, but soemthing that complex has to be good
Also take notice of the links at the bottom of the page,there are some quite interesting things.
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