The experiment is thought-provoking. Along somewhat similar lines I have a (completely unsubstantiated) hunch that strong AI ultimately will arise from somethi

The experiment is thought-provoking. Along somewhat similar lines I have a (completely unsubstantiated) hunch that strong AI ultimately will arise from something like this architecture rather than anything based on the current wave of machine learning. Among several interesting quotes this one was particularly striking: [O]ne of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers, the K computer in Kobe, Japan, consumes as much as 9.89 megawatts of energy — an amount roughly equivalent to the power usage of 10,000 households. Yet in 2013, even with that much power, it took the machine 40 minutes to simulate just a single second’s worth of 1 percent of human brain activity.