The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.
I’m onboard 100% with your definitions. But I think you does a little mistake here, general intelligence is about problem solving, reasoning, the ability to make a mental construct out of data, remember things …
It doesn’t however imply that it has to be a human doing it (even if the “level” is usually at human levels) or that human experience it.
Maybe nitpicking but I feel this is often overlooked and lots of people conflate for example AGI with a need of consciousness.
Then again, maybe computers cannot be as intelligent as us 😞 but I sincerely doubt it.
So IMO, the human mind probably needs its consciousness to have general intelligence (as you said, it won’t probably function at all without it, or very differently), but I argue that it’s just because we are humans with wetware and all of that junk, and that doesn’t at all mean it’s an inherent part of intelligence in itself. And I see absolutely no reason for why it must.
I’m onboard 100% with your definitions. But I think you does a little mistake here, general intelligence is about problem solving, reasoning, the ability to make a mental construct out of data, remember things …
It doesn’t however imply that it has to be a human doing it (even if the “level” is usually at human levels) or that human experience it.
Maybe nitpicking but I feel this is often overlooked and lots of people conflate for example AGI with a need of consciousness.
Then again, maybe computers cannot be as intelligent as us 😞 but I sincerely doubt it.
So IMO, the human mind probably needs its consciousness to have general intelligence (as you said, it won’t probably function at all without it, or very differently), but I argue that it’s just because we are humans with wetware and all of that junk, and that doesn’t at all mean it’s an inherent part of intelligence in itself. And I see absolutely no reason for why it must.
Complicated topic for sure!