Take AlphaGo, because I know Go quite well. A computer is making better decisions than a human, using a pretty reasonable approximation of the same mechanism as a human but scaled up. It needs relatively more resources (gameplay time, expert attention, etc) to a achieve a more focused result than a human expert.
At the moment, it is very easy to suspect that it is only the economics of training a neural net (hardware, specialist attention, data gathering an processing) that is holding us back from AGI.
Human brains can evolve by chance. Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Natural Intelligence isn't that smart either, realistically.
At the moment, it is very easy to suspect that it is only the economics of training a neural net (hardware, specialist attention, data gathering an processing) that is holding us back from AGI.
Human brains can evolve by chance. Nothing fundamental is stopping us from creating a synthetic one. Natural Intelligence isn't that smart either, realistically.