The Android Head of Philip K. Dick

> and any AI that could mimic human consciousness is far in the future

Is it just me, or people who says these things gives you the impression they have no clue what neither consciousness or AI is? These people seem to want computers to mimic humans just for mimicking human's sake. They think they want to see a computer "smarter than a human". But what they really want is just a really complex fart app. We already have plenty of robots who do plenty intellectual of tasks, even learning, much better than humans. But hey, they don't really fart as realistically yet. So the singularity is still far away!

Completely bungled the explanations of both the Uncanny Valley and the Turing Test, but still managed to tell an entertaining story.

As the article points out, they couldn't have picked a more appropriate role model. Wonder how many times a day he gets asked if he dreams of Electric Sheep though...