I think that some progress in sensory systems would make AGI easier. Obviously, humans spend most of their time structuring the complex, physical world around t

I think that some progress in sensory systems would make AGI easier. Obviously, humans spend most of their time structuring the complex, physical world around them, not a stream of text like most AI approaches dictates. Our genetic code isn't that huge, but the amount of information contained in our brains is. All that information must be coming for somewhere. I refuse to believe that evolution has managed to create _that_ awesome compression algorithms. Maybe this is what Google does, in a way. They happen to have a huge corpus of machine-readable data, which is in a sense equivalent to what a sophisticated sensory apparatus would give you. I intended to disagree with you when I started writing this comment, but now I'm not so sure. Human intelligence obviously doesn't spend its time reading petabytes of information on other people's search habits, but maybe Google is actually onto something.