> artificial general intelligence is perfectly possible (we do, after all, have a working example) It depends what is meant by 'general'. Would we say that hum

> artificial general intelligence is perfectly possible (we do, after all, have a working example) It depends what is meant by 'general'. Would we say that humans have 'general' physical capability? Well, we can do quite a few things, yes, but there are plenty of things various animals and machines can do that we cannot, and there are certainly plenty of further things conceivably possible. Why would not informational machines -- intelligence -- be like that? Have we developed a general physical machine yet? What would that mean? Human 'intelligence' is just one small example. It is not really special, and not a general measure of anything. So although AI will certainly improve, saying there is a particular threshold that will be passed is sort-of problematic (which does seem to fit the history of AI).