AI + neural networks?

[Dimster]

I don't think we (in our life time) will ever see an artificial consciousness. This implies awareness and the actual creation of an artificial life form. AI right now is very specific task driven like driving a car or facial recognition or playing chess or collecting and analyzing data  ... very specific tasks .... its a very long way from doing what your brain can do. Some of the key people in the AI field, like Nick Bostrom, feel IF a computer can perform at the same level as our brains then this level is called Artificial General Intelligent (AGI). He finds it worrisome because once at this level there WILL a next level which is being called Artificial Super Intelligence.(ASI). A computer operating at ASI could spell the end of mankind. Bostrom has an interesting book on strategies an AI programmers should consider if we want a world where humans can co-exist with an ASI.