I got the opposite impression—that the timeline for brain emulation was less uncertain than the timeline for AI.
My understanding is that—if we can’t find even a single shortcut, whole human brain emulation will produce machine intelligence… eventually. However, engineering-based approaches seem highly likely to beat that path by a considerable margin.
Aeroplanes are not scanned birds, submarines are not scanned fish, cars are not scanned horses—and so on, and so forth.
As far as I can tell, whole human brain emulation as a route to machine intelligence is an approach that is based almost entirely upon wishful thinking by philosophers.
My understanding is that—if we can’t find even a single shortcut, whole human brain emulation will produce machine intelligence… eventually. However, engineering-based approaches seem highly likely to beat that path by a considerable margin.
Aeroplanes are not scanned birds, submarines are not scanned fish, cars are not scanned horses—and so on, and so forth.
As far as I can tell, whole human brain emulation as a route to machine intelligence is an approach that is based almost entirely upon wishful thinking by philosophers.