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---------OOO Knowing how your brain functions will help you to understand, why even IT professionals, grossly overestimate our wonderful artificial intelligence (AI) and underestimate our flabbergasting human brain. As a result, even very clever and successful executives, IT-directors, managers, tech entrepreneurs and tech professionals throw away massive amounts of time and money to realize ideas that are nothing but pipe-dreams.---------OOO This lack of knowledge about the human brain also makes other people needlessly afraid of a superior “general artificial intelligence” that in a near future will surpass human intelligence, while in reality the greatest present threat is the artificial stupidity of our present-day “narrow artificial intelligence”. ---------OOO This book compares the abilities and limits of a human brain with artificial intelligence. To make the differences much easier to understand the author uses the example of a human being driving a car and an autonomous car.---------OOO AI does not replicate general human intelligence, it does not even scratch the surface. It only imitates a few narrow aspects of the way the human reflex-brain-system functions, while attempting to bypass the meaning of the data it processes. This limited imitation of the functioning of the human reflex-brain-system is sufficient to do routine tasks, even very complex ones, that can be reduced to statistics, to mathematical models, to a (massive) computing of probabilities. It often performs these components amazingly better and faster than a human brain, although at an extremely high energetic cost.---------OOO Since computer systems can do this much better and faster than people, there is no doubt that they will be able to drive a robot-car in a simplified, predictable environment, adapted to their limitations and with a very fast broadband connection to tap a database of information to deal with rare events. ---------OOO AI, however, will not be able to do what our think-