I don't think such a thing as general AI, or even general intelligence, is sensible to talk about. There are always tradeoffs: an algorithm good at finding some

I don't think such a thing as general AI, or even general intelligence, is sensible to talk about. There are always tradeoffs: an algorithm good at finding some sort of patterns, necessarily has to be worse at finding other sorts of patterns. There are actually ways to formalize and prove that, but it's intuitively obvious that an algorithm that can find the answer to a set of questions, can't be faster than an algorithm to find the answer to a subset of those questions.