I think text is too high of a concept for this kind of thing, all your examples of senses are really just input memory. Text to a computer is simply input and c

I think text is too high of a concept for this kind of thing, all your examples of senses are really just input memory. Text to a computer is simply input and can mean different things in different contexts. Is the binary string coming out of some temperature sensor really any different than a digital audio stream, or string of text? It's simply a case of mapping those inputs to a concept of feeling, hearing or reading. I think the real challenge to this kind of approach is always going to be raw processing power and size of data sets. Our brains may not be incredibly efficient, but they have so much more stuff to work with over even our largest data centers and the amount of data that comes to us every living moment is basically infinite compared to curated sets we feed our current learning machines. So imitating the way people learn like this is probably the key to getting something to properly "think", I just wonder when the resources available to our computers will catch up to the resources available to our brains.