Considering the complexity of the human brain, it seems only fair to balance out a competitor's handicap in some way. Your idea seems to anticipate the logical progression of these tests: "Nature made this mind inside this small object, the brain, why don't we do that?" Regardless, the trend of course is toward miniaturization. I see news like this recent story: "Glass Disc Can Store 360 TB" http://petapixel.com/2016/02/16/glass-disc-can-store-360-tb-... to back up imagined futures like the film Her: https://youtu.be/WzV6mXIOVl4 (and that film doesn't even address whether the OSes are connected through a wireless network).

This stuff is happening fast, and we might have found ourselves, historically, in a place of unintelligible amounts of change. And possibly undreamt of amounts of self-progression.