No, I think the overall concept isn't bad, but we're deep sea tube worms trying to do brain surgery.

We got surprising results my mimicking life. Possibly for the same reasons it works for life, but there's still a lot more to it. All our iterations now are just using programming and resources to make use of what we found to do some of our cognitive work for us.

The whole weighted model concept was a step in the right direction and some of it may actually be how life operates, but that alone (or even wrapped in the smartest code we can think of) isn't going to get us to AI.