the point about the increase in computational resources reminded me of Gary Marcus latest book. It seems like the increasing trend away from research into generalised AI models towards narrower and narrower domain-specific ML models that consume more and more energy and data is becoming an increasing bottleneck.

I think instead of trying to build larger computers there is an opportunity for academia to move back towards the construction of cognitive models and minimizing the reliance on computation and data. That's what intelligence is supposed to be all about.