Very succinct post. The so-called sophistication is just a smoke screen for FRAUD. I remember a a couple of years ago the president of HSBC's sub-prime mortgage division bragged that the had 100 PhDs in Risk Management on board. Ask yourself, how can 100 PhDs in risk management actually be put to work? Maybe one or two, but 100? Furthermore, based on their results, I guess all these PhDs missed the mark big time. The point of all this seeming sophistication is to create unfathomable complexity and a cover story for a very simple objective: theft.

OK, this chip can execute interconnected logic in hardware. It's obvious how this could also be performed in software, albeit not in a massively parallel fashion. I don't mean to imply this is a trivial task. But the fact is that brain operation depends hugely on memory. And as far as I know, we don not have even a glimmer as to how memory actually works. Maybe some vague ideas, but certainly not a comprehensive understanding. So this thing that has been developed is really, at best, more like a simple brain stem, able to execute relatively simple logic. It's probably just a overgrown industrial process controller.