Do you believe that a computer can out-do, out-wit, out-smart man's brain?

The current standard in establishing actual artificial
intelligence for computers is called the Turing Test, and was introduced by Alan Turing
in 1950 as a way of measuring if a computer could think.  At this point (2012) there is
no computer that passes the Turing Test, although many computers are attempting to
simulate the passing of limited portions of the Turing
Test.

A computer is a device that performs many operations
very quickly (billions of times per second!), and yet it does not think or interpret any
of the data that it manipulates.  With the invention of faster computers, it seems as
though they are out-thinking humans.  For example, computers regularly beat humans at
playing chess, and yet, they have no actual knowledge or understanding of the game.
 There is no feeling or thought involved, just billions of
calculations.

Despite all of the advances with computer
science in the last 70 years, these devices have no ability to reason or think or out-do
humans, and that does not look like a possibility any time
soon.

On the other hand, you may say that eventually
computers can do so many things better than humans.  This is true, but in the same way,
a car goes faster than people, and yet we do not feel threatened by
cars!