• AI contributes to building an information processing model of human beings, just as Biochemistry contributes to building a model of human beings based on bio-molecular interactions
  • Both try to explain how a human being operates
  • Both also explore ways to avoid human imperfections (in Biochemistry, by engineering new proteins and drug molecules; in AI, by designing rational reasoning methods)
  • Both try to produce new useful technologies
  • Neither explains (yet?) the true meaning of being human