No doubt increased funding and interests will increase the odds of stumbling upon "cheap" strong AI - a faster-than-brute-force solution.
But consider the only strong intelligence we know: say intelligence only relied on the brain (which might well not be the case). This organ consumes a large fraction of the energy available to the individual. I'm not saying evolution produces optimal solutions but I guess its fair to say that a vastly superior algorithm would have had a good chance of concurring the world by now.
So imitating the biological processes of the brain in silicon would be rather costly no matter the gain. And that would in the end (at best) be a one-in-seven-billion individual ie. no magic powers.
I guess funding will flow towards practical systems that augument some consumer who will in the end provide a return on the investment.
Just saying we are not short on intelligence and its not likely to be cheap to run massive scale super-AI in silicon.
SMI might enter this world as a defensive measure in the fight against terrorism and/or cybercrime. It seem obvious that the task facing intelligence agencies today is overwhelming given the vast volumes of data they would like to monitor. This abundance of trainingdata paired with nearly unlimited resources seems a plausible incubator for an intensionally paranoid and possibly hostile SMI. As others have pointed out: self awareness and creativity might very well be emerging behaviors. This would not be first time in history that weapons-research crosses a point of no return.
Real world entities are harder to model than we sometimes like to think. This is a problem in all paradigms because its the fundamental challenge of understanding the world. Entities in the real world often have hidden or poorly understood behaviours.
This translates into those moments where you whish you could start all over - because you just learnt something important about your domain.
There was a discussion like this over on reddit. I honestly don't think this saved them anything in the sense that this isn't an unsolved problem. Im sure they already have a working solution for this and that any improvements on the density of the packages will have to be pretty significant to warrant a change. I could be wrong and in that case best of luck to them - they didn't trick it from me.
I don't make 10K USD a week to start with. At all.
I didn't keep track of the hours unfortunately as a lot of people have asked me that question.
But I would say that I have worked a couple of nights a week during that month plus some "thinking time" while commuting. I have a full-time job, a wife and three kids to keep my busy the rest of the time.
I updated the title. But I did originally post it under a title like that a few days ago - with no response. So thought I would give it a second chance before getting on.