As 'CS type' actually working on ML, I disagree. I'd rather prefer some help from hardware guys, that would allow me to run a neuro network with 100 billion neurons really really fast.
If it's not and the goal is just replicating and accelerating certain cognitive abilities, then it might not be super helpful and possibly disheartening (disheartening because of how much we lack full understanding of consciousness due to limitations of only being able to understand it via our own consciousness).
Kant certainly didn't know what consciousness was. He had some instructive things to say, and massively helped frame the debate for people who came later, but even present-day philosophers who have the benefit of modern science and technology to help in their investigation are no closer to pinning down how it is that meat can feel.
Not until the Singularity, basically. I'm not going to hold my breath for that one.
From a scientific perspective, this elevates philosophy beyond anything reasonable. Philosophers have many things to say, but they tend not to be the kind of people who are trained to ask, "Is there an empirical, falsifiable test of my claim?"
Call it what you want, if it works, that's all that matters. Also, presuming that a "thinking" brain must be like a human brain is naive.
Assuming that it means something to begin with...