Robotic Breakthrough May Change The Game

French Scientists Build First Transistor That Mimics Brain Connections
Popular Science By Jeremy Hsu
Let's get that positronic brain rolling
The thing about this is that it's going to mean a possible radical change in possible design parameters. One of the most exciting things is the possibility of finally crossing the brain / computer interface divide.
In fiction we've almost always seen artificial brains that are designed separately and that are just as isolated as our own human brains. In reality the solving of the AI problem may be more of a merger between living brains and artificial augmentation right from the get go.