Agreed! The author obviously has not thought a lot about AI before and misses the idea of abstract models/functions as implemented by brains. And she is wrong

Agreed! The author obviously has not thought a lot about AI before and misses the idea of abstract models/functions as implemented by brains. And she is wrong on the "dark, hot underbelly of Moore's law", power consumption relative to computational power has most certainly gone down in an exponential fashion.