"Human-like AI" has been promised since the 50s.
What if it ain't never going to happen, but we get some useful stuff along the way? Who cares if it can't act exactly like a human? Do we care that a submarine doesn't do all the things a fish can do?
What if it ain't never going to happen, but we get some useful stuff along the way? Who cares if it can't act exactly like a human? Do we care that a submarine doesn't do all the things a fish can do?
All we will probably end up with, with a cognitive machine, is a set of all-similar super thinkers that will understand they are millions faster than their creators but dislike their weakness, or an emasculated soul less calculator, or... a child that grows like we already have.
I think you're right we should focus on getting useful help rather that birth a cursed mind that will be very lonely.
Many of the singularity charts had put the time between 2020 and 2030 when computing power matches a single brain so it shouldn't come as a surprise.