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jd_in_sb said:

I was under the impression that the barrier to good AI was software not lack of CPU speed. If we had blazing fast chips today would Siri suddenly be amazing? I think not.  

Of course AI needs good software, but that software has to do billions of complicated computations, and therefore raw processing power is needed too. Last years WWDC, in a talk about the Photos app it was mentioned that when you take a picture with the iPhone camera, around 11 billion calculations are made, to tag the picture with metadata about what's in the picture (face recognition and objects like cars, beaches, cats, dogs etc).