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I think this shows something more important: we are not hardware limited. There's no reason someone could not have implemented this 40 years ago. Our hardware is way beyond our research.

I didn't know how to create a general intelligence, but however it's done will probably be something an undergrad could implement in a week using a desktop computer in 2024.

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> No reliance on something like OpenAI is needed, though the "probabilistic PCA algorithm" running on the Commodore 64 used for this project was actually trained on a modern computer. So while the model runs on Commodore 64 as advertised, a modern PC was still needed to get this up and running to begin with.

Bah, fair enough.

I think the thrust of my argument is true though. We could have gone 10 or 20 years back instead (C64 is downright ancient).

it would be more compelling if the algorithm they used was actually at all similar to modern deep NNs

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