Throwing Cold Water On the Singurality Idea

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6. I think it's a fair bet that if you first manage to emulate a human brain as-is...

...with all of its flaws as well as its powerful abilities, and this emulation lives in the realm of digital hardware and software, it will then be much easier to analyze, modify and adjust the resulting system to fix many of the flaws and to integrate new capabilities, producing an end result much like the human/computer collaborations you're talking about, but with much tighter integration.

At a crude level of integration, it could be like a human with cybernetics. Can't remember the name of someone you met at lunch yesterday? Bring up the recording of that time period and replay it as an audio/video overlay to your current sensory input, play it back until you hear the name again. Need to perform a calculation? You see a calculator appear before you, you mentally enter the numbers and see the results.

You could start there, and then work out how to deepen the integration.