> Will general purpose AI consist of essentially layers and layers of AI's that can handle progressively more abstract inputs, models, and patterns? This will

> Will general purpose AI consist of essentially layers and layers of AI's that can handle progressively more abstract inputs, models, and patterns? This will very likely be the case. It has already sort of been the case in the AI that we have already built. The best understanding we have about the real brain - is something similar to that case. Notably, we also want it to be the case, we will try to make it work first in that way, before any other way, because that's the only way for us to be able to understand it. We would rather have a machine that we can still understand at least on some levels, instead of one which is just a black box. So of course we will want to split it up into several levels which will be easier to understand, at least individually. > Can we achieve general purpose AI through purely algorithmic means No one knows. The only way to know is to actually build something, then progress slowly by iterating and doing more experimentation, trying to implement new ideas etc. Focus the attention on the most lucrative ideas. This is what the AI community is doing right now. > What if this model ended up producing true general purpose AI, but the amount of input synthesizing and modeling required so much processing power that the speed at which general purpose AI could operate is no faster than a human brain? I don't think it is even a common idea that it is a specific goal of general AI research to make it "faster" than a human brain. Faster for what? Thinking faster? Being smarter - sure? Being more agile in terms of not requiring sleep, or being ever-vigilant while things like driving for exapmle, sure. But faster? What would that even mean in practice? We already have machines that are faster than humans at physical tasks, they don't require GAI. Producing a brain which works at the same speed as a human would still be a tremendous achievement and would transform the life on earth as we know it. Even if it would be 10 times slower than a human, it would be an achievement. Even if this is a slow AI, we could just copy it multiple times and make them work together. Like people are working together now. If you only have 10 people in the world sufficiently knowledgable in a field, they can only do so much work and progress. If you could copy each one of them 1000 times, those copies could pursue different paths simultaneously and the progress would be much faster. Or why not copy a perfect store clerk so that no people would need to do that anymore? Ability to backup and restore certain snapshots of a brain would be amazing. And of course, if there is a physical way to speed up a brain - it would certainly be much easier once you have a working brain, than right now would proper understanding of how it even works.