@picofarad @s8n I think this comes down to its easier for sociopaths to buy more metal than it is to cultivate more talent. Some of these systems are proven to be universal approximates and they are rich enough to just slam entire data centers at the problem. They don't have Kurzweils that actually make the bandpass filters to model a cochlea.

Partly why I don't care to read the papers anymore. They're too compute intensive for self learning. A brain is able to configure itself on only a 50W power supply.