FWIW, I'm in no way suggesting that evolutionary strategies are the way forward in the search for AGI, though I suppose they might be part of the solution. My

FWIW, I'm in no way suggesting that evolutionary strategies are the way forward in the search for AGI, though I suppose they might be part of the solution. My 95% bet is that a random or evolutionary search might be how people optimize an AGI, not how they find it. They'll get there via a minor but innovative twist on the RNN work we've already seen (first people need to realize that backdrop through time is a complete dead end, and they should be looking closer at reinforcement learning methods and figuring out how to bring them online).