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The document is a late 1980's document, but as such, in trying to say what a NVN structure might look like, they do much to describe existing VN architecture. And it is very telling that not much has changed since then for hardware or software.

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Yep. I got interested in this topic recently when watching a video[1] from the MIT AGI class[2] and the presenter (Josh Tenenbaum[3]) made the point that real advances in AGI may require new hardware architectures. I wanted to see what was "out there" in terms of research on non von-neumann architectures, and this was one of the best documents I could find at first blush, even though it is older.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ROelYvo8f0

[2]: https://agi.mit.edu

[3]: http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html

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