Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind

With regard to the first caveat, Moravec's estimates of animal equivalence are based solely on hardware complexity. It is often the case that hardware alone cannot deliver performance, but it also requires software sufficient to the task. Thus, projecting "human equivalence" in computer hardware does not mean that "human equivalent software" will be ready to run on the hardware. With regard to the second caveat, neuroscientists regularly adjust upward the estimate of human brain complexity. This upward estimation has the effect of extending the estimated time at which comput-Hans Moravec, Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind.