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I often wonder if the pursuit of AGI is going to require a greater focus on new hardware architecture.

All the sci-fi seems think this. I have seen Intel chips from the 80s that implemented neuron like behavior on a chip.

We are still waiting on a practical memristor.

I doubt it - modern computers are already pretty fast at brute-forcing all sorts of things and the first AGI will be perfectly functional even if it takes a full day to respond, and AGI research requires you to fully understand what you're creating before you create it so full-system testing is something you'd only want to do near the end of the project anyway. At which point you basically want an ASIC.

FPGAs seem like the future.

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