If we make a brain by simulating neurons then making it superhuman is a matter of throwing hardware at it, and it could certainly help design better hardware. In terms of subjective time no it would not be a lot faster than a human but that doesn't matter to the outside view.
I actually think though that apart from just more cycles the patch-work simulation brain would enjoy immense advantages in terms of access to information and computing facilities. Similar to the advantages we would anticipate from "wiring in" an organic brain but even better since it can benefit from much higher bandwidth.
If we make a brain by simulating neurons then making it superhuman is a matter of throwing hardware at it,
Not really. No matter what you do, if your simulation speed is optimized to the best of your current know-how, expanding additional hardware once you reach full simulation will only be wasted resources. And then you run into lightspeed constraints and bus/bandwidth limitations.
I.e.; if we don't have the hardware you can't "just throw more hardware at it".
and it could certainly help design better hardware.
There is an underlying assumpt...
By singularity I mean a recursive self-improving intelligence created by man that will help us solve the worlds problems.
please explain the downvotes.. sorry I didn't write an essay or link to lots of in-jokes about the sky being green. It's just a simple question so I didn't want to embellish it.