I think it's pretty obvious that raw computing power alone isn't enough to get True AI, and there's no guarantee we'll need a stupidly powerful processor for AI

I think it's pretty obvious that raw computing power alone isn't enough to get True AI, and there's no guarantee we'll need a stupidly powerful processor for AI in the first place. Also, we mainly ignore parallelisation because it's hard to reason about, which makes it easy pickings for AI to improve on if we do need stupidly large amounts of computing power. Although if it's inherently linear we're just SOL I guess.