Re: "Machines can already surpass humans in specific intellectual tasks"
Smaller CPUs will happen. Either Intel will get their act together and sort out their sub 14nm manufacturing process, or some other company will.
Also, you could fit of CPU cores into a brain-sized space if you wanted to optimise for space - if it was basically solid silicon with liquid cooling channels running through it.
But that isn't the problem. Sure your supercomputer will beat a human at Go, but could it find its way to the nearest bus stop and make its way back home afterwards?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
