You want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.

"The thinking around AGI and superintelligence is not just optimistic, but fundamentally flawed," the Allen Institute research scientist and Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor writes in a recent blog post . Dettmers defines AGI as an intelligence that can do all things humans can do, including economically meaningful physical tasks.

The problem, he explains, is that most of the discussion around AGI is philosophical. But, at the end of the day, it has to run on something. And while many would like to believe that GPUs are still getting faster and more capable, Dettme

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