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Modern supercomputers are still a factor of 10 off of the brains compute power(~1 Exaflop) but I don't think anyone in the field believes that you suddenly get consciousness once you reach a critical mass of compute. It's clearly a software problem.

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Estimates vary over many orders of magnitude: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/

~1 Exaflop leaves room for error.

I suppose my point is I distrust your certainty. It's quite possible 20 petaflops may be enough. Maybe we will need many exaflops. We don't really know.

Moravec's estimate which seems quite well reasoned puts it much lower, about 100 terraflops which you can now get in a GPU https://www.scan.co.uk/products/pny-nvidia-tesla-v100-16-gb-...

It's true they have not suddenly become conscious.

A factor of 10? That's it. It's as good as done within 5-7 years.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/racing-match-chinas-...

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