> The computational power of the hardware is getting really close to what a human brain is capable of
Why do you say that? AFAIK computing architecture and brain architecture are completely different. How would you even begin to compare their power?
Why do you say that? AFAIK computing architecture and brain architecture are completely different. How would you even begin to compare their power?
Google has TPU that are off from the estimated power required to simulate a brain by a factor of 3, so technology is reaching the ballpark. Given that brains were evolved, the part that does symbolic thinking is probably "easy to stumble on" in some practical sense.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_performance_by_orders...
Given how we've managed to improve on nature in other domains (see solar cell efficiency, for example), I think that if we can figure out how intelligent organisms manage to learn so quickly we can likely beat nature's efficiency.