So, our brains are just a little ecosystem of competing functions, and our pre-frontal cortex / prediction engine (the piece most AI researchers care about) is

So, our brains are just a little ecosystem of competing functions, and our pre-frontal cortex / prediction engine (the piece most AI researchers care about) is trained on species survival, but beholden to the "lizard brain." I'm still on the bandwagon that AGI is already solved, and we just don't recognize it because we aren't as complex or magical as we like to pretend we are. We are just currently selected-for species survival, and not even in the present environment as the dominant species of the planet. That doesn't make us "Generally intelligent" any more than many other systems on the planet (including the computational ones). I'm not even convinced that "intelligence" is especially a thing. If we're trying to replicate "human intelligence," then I think that's something else entirely, and would require removing a lot of capability from the AI that I don't think anybody would want to remove from AI, given that we have plenty of serviceable humans to do the work of human-intelligence style tasks. No, when folks say AGI, they mean "cares about the things I care about, and is more accurate, but can speak in a way I understand." But how is a network of neurons going to care about what you care about if they see the world in a different way, or have been trained on solving a different set of problems than "living a life as a human?" It just doesn't make sense to expect, or even want, human intelligence from a synthetic intelligence.