Interesting point: It's the messy, opportunistic, gestalt-driven activity of thinking that we still don't know much about.

I have a couple of questions that I would love someone well-versed in AI to answer:

1. Does the difficulty of systems like driverless cars arise because we haven't been able to replicate the feedback loop mechanism that is largely hardwired? Is it some limitation of control theory (I'm just speculating). How is this so fundamentally harder than the ability to exponentiate one 1024-bit numer to another mod a third 1024-bit number (which is done in microseconds)?

2. With regards to aspects of AI that we might want to interact with, is human vision and visual post-processing done in the brain the hardest to replicate? Is it a matter of unknown algorithms or rather massive parallelism that gives humans a large advantage? If not, are other senses, like hearing (voice-recognition) or haptics harder to replicate?