Where could you have possibly gotten that idea? Seriously, can you point out some references for context?
Pretty much universally within the AGI community it is agreed that the roadblock to AGI is software, not hardware. Even on the whole-brain emulation route, the most powerful supercomputer built today is sufficient to do WBE of a human. The most powerful hardware actually in use by a real AGI or WBE research programme is orders of magnitude less powerful, of course. But if that were the only holdup then it'd be very easily fixable.
the most powerful supercomputer built today is sufficient to do WBE of a human.
Can you expand on your reasoning to conclude this? This isn't obvious to me.
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