One thing the world has is an abundance of human minds. We actually do not need machines that think like humans—we have humans.
Machines for doing dangerous and monotonous work which requires human or near-human levels of perception and judgment such as mining or driving trucks would have a clear utility, even though they’d just be machines that think (somewhat) like humans and would neither do superhuman feats of cognition nor advance the understanding of the mind design space.
Machines for doing dangerous and monotonous work which requires human or near-human levels of perception and judgment such as mining or driving trucks would have a clear utility, even though they’d just be machines that think (somewhat) like humans and would neither do superhuman feats of cognition nor advance the understanding of the mind design space.