Powerful Disruptive Potential of Quantum Computers and Memristors for Artificial General Intelligence and Medicine
Quantum computers and memristors could blow past the performance of conventional transistors.
Technology based pattern recognition and categorization could rapidly become many orders of magnitude better than human capabilities and beyond current levels. Integration into a self-improving AGI might remain challenging even with those new capabilities, but by themselves super-pattern recognition and superfast categorization would have a lot of impact. They would be powerful tools and devices for accelerating scientific and technological progress. They would be powerful tools for people to use and could become integrated into daily use when costs come down. More progress in nanotechnology (not even full molecular nanotechnology) could bring the costs down and increase the capabilities.
