I'm simply extrapolating current trends. Extrapolating current trends doesn't work in the face of exponential mumbo jumbo. Who would have expected training a

I'm simply extrapolating current trends. Extrapolating current trends doesn't work in the face of exponential mumbo jumbo. Who would have expected training a character-by-character network could produce reasonable output? http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ Sure, there's no "understanding" or "consciousness" behind the output, but purely statistically, it generates something readable by humans. Also, let's not forget scale. A human brain has between 100 and 200 trillion synapses connecting ~100 billion neurons to make consciousness work. Our toy neural nets so far aren't anywhere near those levels.