> parlour trick in comparison to what the brain is doing That's a good turn of phrase, because it speaks to the real rub between algorithmic insufficiency and

> parlour trick in comparison to what the brain is doing That's a good turn of phrase, because it speaks to the real rub between algorithmic insufficiency and hardware insufficiency. From my reading, it seems fair to say that "strong general AI" will require some product of both to be realized and that our current hardware capabilities likely fall short of the minimum requirement (even with optimal algorithms). Were they imagining exascale computing when Quicksort was dreamed up in 1959? No. But does that make it any less important?