While intelligent machines are capable of defeating the chess and jeopardy pros, there are tasks a six year old can beat them at in seconds

When we look at the picture on the left, it’s obvious that something’s wrong with the picture on the bottom. The human brain’s capability to integrate knowledge is what allows us to recognize that  keyboards and computers fit well together while plants and computers… not so much.

Christof Koch, Cognitive and behavioural biology professor at the California Institute of Technology and Giulio Tononi, professor in consciousness science at
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