> That being said... I'm a big fan of the saying that AI doesn't need human-brain-style thinking to achieve a working imitation of human-level intelligence, just like the airplane is an example of flying without imitating the bird.

I definitely agree. IMO, you see a lot of "AI is not true intelligence", which doesn't really matter.

Eliezer Yudkowsky had an interesting observation:

> Words aren't thoughts, they're log files generated by thoughts.

I believe he meant the written word.