Wouldn ' t that mean that the principles for an AI would be the same , but the performance of the hardware determines how much it can do ? The exact manner in which it learns doesn ' t have to be identical to human learning it couldn ' t be anyway not literally . So I think the end result is the only thing that matters i . e . it learns something somehow . And yes , thank you for the unsupervised learning bit . That ' s a key phrase . But that ' s not how humans learn . All of our learning is supervised at one point or another as a correction later on down the road , as a warning , or even as that inner , critical voice . So techniques may obviously differ . Hardware limitations are a whole ' nother beast . <| sep |> Pic is from two or three years ago .