> The way you state that one wonders why we haven't already achieved superhuman, general AI. Brain emulation is still expensive ... https://en.wikipedia.org/w

> The way you state that one wonders why we haven't already achieved superhuman, general AI. Brain emulation is still expensive ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain#/media/File:Estimations_of_Human_Brain_Emulation_Required_Performance.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain#/media/File:E... It'll be interesting to see what we can learn at the different levels of emulation. > It's produced by mundane trial and error experimentation. Fair point, although experiments in computer science and applied mathematics can usually be carried out without constructing physical apparatus. Also identifying and designing experiments to efficiently characterize a problem space is a large part of experimentation. And again, once automated fabrication improves, some automated experimentation in physics and chemistry becomes possible.