Brain States

Mitchell Kapor and Ray Kurzweil weigh in on the following bet:

“By 2029 no computer - or “machine intelligence” - will have passed the Turing Test.”

Artificial intelligence is a tricky business.  At this point I wonder if it is all but impossible.  Cognitive science is concerned with the “mechanization of the mind, not the humanization of the machine.” (Jean-Pierre Dupuy, 2000)  So technically as a cognitive scientist I should not even be concerned with AI  (although I could never stop myself.)  However, could achieving one form, “mechanization of the mind” for example, be equal to achieving the other?