startalk show talked about intelligence stimulated in a dish of neural cells.......not silicon.
emphasis was on the critical aspect of their r and d is the cells/'brain' tissue aggregate is that it needed ............'DATA'.
all the computational abilities are useless without the data.
all of the data.
they might as well been saying, 8 and v ip.....lol.
it's alway been about the data . mle/markup/521/moving the data about/life cycle management of same.
valde and his pc to mainframe management.........getting management of the data, processing for desired work, storing of same.
nvidia's quantum emulations and gpu's are interesting, but with data can do spectacular things.
xml/mle/transformation...........like gold mining, you go to the most likely places to find the gold/data of benefit/ dig it up, isolate and concentrate the interesting stuff, refine it.......then use it in the calculations, algorithms, software, scenarios, events, etc.