[cubefox]

In hindsight computation wasn't the important thing though. A lot of things require a lot of computation that aren't intelligent or don't scale well, like Deep Blue. The important breakthrough in AI was learning ("machine learning").

[laughingman2]

Search/Reasoning/Inference time compute, however you phrase it is still essential. You need search to improve upon learning to work in novel situations.

[cubefox]

Humans do very little "search", as we can see in games like Go. Which suggests it isn't essential for AI either.