Do you think machine consciousness is possible?
byoung2: which "new lead" in computation do you think will allow it?I don't know if hardware is holding back progress in AI, especially with distributed computing; it is more likely a question of software and programming.  I think in order for a computer to exhibit a reasonable facsimile of human intelligence, it will have to do more than just run programs written by humans.  It would have to have the ability to write and rewrite its own code.