WILL WE EVER COMPUTE LIKE A BRAIN?

The majority of significant breakthroughs in computer science and Artificial Intelligence have been the result of an explosive increase in computation power. Up to this point, growth has been exponential, with computational power roughly doubling every 2 years. At the same time the complexity of deep learning tasks is increasing even more rapidly. So there is a widening gap between the computation power needed for modern AI applications and the computational resources we have access to, and it is very quickly becoming a major issue. Many times in the past humanity has turned to Mother Nature in order to find solutions to complex engineering problems.