Seems like nothing really exceptionally different in 2015. All the projects or ideas the author mentioned have been around for quite some time, at least since t

Seems like nothing really exceptionally different in 2015. All the projects or ideas the author mentioned have been around for quite some time, at least since the early 2000's. Also, Turing completeness is not a strict requirement for intelligence. That line of thinking has fallen out of favor in recent years, in the same way that comparing the brain to a steam engine has. I think we are increasingly realizing that the brain is not a magnetic pin and the world is not a piece of tape. Intelligence could be solved via artificial neural networks or statistical techniques, so it's not clear to me that a continuous conscious experience requires swapping out one neuron at a time.