We're far from emulating networks on the scale of the visual cortex, let alone a self-reasoning machine (we don't even fully understand consciousness and inner workings of the brain).
People fearing strong-AI are the ones not involved in the field, yet all this hype/fear from them (in combination with Moore's law ending) is probably going to cause another AI winter.
People fearing strong-AI are the ones not involved in the field, yet all this hype/fear from them (in combination with Moore's law ending) is probably going to cause another AI winter.