Could Modern Computers Think And React Like Human?

This has been a discussion between me and my friends. Technology has reshaped our environment, even the evolution of calculating machine was a ease to human. We have seen a whole lot of changes and we are still waiting for the ones that will “whao” our imagination. Dr. Dharmendra Modha, founder of IBM’s Cognitive Computing Group is on a mission with his team to unveil a cognitive computing chip and software ecosystem inspired by the human brain that could power everything from search and rescue robots in hazardous environments to intelligent buoys which float on ocean waves, predicting tsunamis or warning of oil pollution. The new technology according to him will use less power and space than today’s computers.

The team has decided to seek assistance from global experts in Neuroscience, Nanoscience and Supercomputing to build this complicated system. In our world, we haven't seen anything, but what would you say to computers thinking and acting like human?