You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.