03-24-2018, 04:20 PM
Personally, speaking as a tech enthusiast, I would say the first AI would definitely have some kind of hardware-level support. It would be too hard to pull off with ordinary transistor pathways, since they have no plasticity.
My lifelong goal: To add "near" to my "baseline" classification.
Lucid dreaming: Because who says baseline computronium can't run virches?