Yes, you could, but building dedicated hardware is the more efficient solution, and you'd have a huge budget for a project like that. The first AI would be built on dedicated hardware, and may later be run using emulation software on conventional computers.
Such hardware would involve some form of physical neural network, the only model experimentally tested to produce sophonce
Its presapient predecessors, the distant ancestors of which are being worked on now, however, could very well use emulators. Eventually they'd get too hard to work with, though, as complexity increased.
Such hardware would involve some form of physical neural network, the only model experimentally tested to produce sophonce

Its presapient predecessors, the distant ancestors of which are being worked on now, however, could very well use emulators. Eventually they'd get too hard to work with, though, as complexity increased.
My lifelong goal: To add "near" to my "baseline" classification.
Lucid dreaming: Because who says baseline computronium can't run virches?