The future of warfare - robot or nobot?

[Montmorency]

No, the point is simply that we have a brain and we're worried that machines will surpass it, yet the only way this can happen given our primitive understanding of brain dynamics is pure accident in terms of "throwing at the wall to see what sticks". It should be obvious that trying to rebuild from scratch something accumulated over many millions of years of evolution is a pretty stupid idea. Ever hear the old saw about the monkeys, the typewriters, and Shakespeare?

If we were inclined to use the same computational tools to instead work toward creating a coherent and practical picture of brain dynamics (i.e. "natural" intelligence), then we would immediately be better-placed to create some sort of superior intelligence, whether machine or biological - the latter scenario being the one we should find more plausible and dreadful.