Computers as powerful as a human brain?

Don't believe it...yet. This article references a website that claims this will be possible in 2045. I don't care how fast you make a computer, a modern computer and a human brain are fundamentally different in how they operate. If you want a computer that will have a human like intelliegence, you are going to have to first understand how the human brain works. At the root of the problem is the problem of the non-deterministic nature of the human brain verses the inherent deterministic nature of a modern computer. There would have to be a new 'kind' of computer invented in order for a true 'artificial' intelligence to be invented. I don't care how fast you make the computers we have now, fast won't help you bridge the gap.

Now for the philosphical, can what is created become greater than the creator?

Head Twister: If we succeed in creating a true artificial intelligence, we will only have validated the genius of God. God would have created a brain that is not only self-aware, but has the capability to reverse-engineer itself. This would be the equivalent of writing a computer program that understands how it was written, and having it manipulate its own code. This type of thing is what is described in 'the matrix'.