>Yet even if all we need is this sort of "seed AI", we still need new architectural insights to be able to create it in the first place. Not necessarily. That

>Yet even if all we need is this sort of "seed AI", we still need new architectural insights to be able to create it in the first place. Not necessarily. That was my entire point, that robust search processes using existing tools and knowledge may yield a seed AI. >Otherwise someone would have surely demonstrated it by now? Again, not necessarily. AGI may not yet exist primarily due to dumb luck. The computational requirements, especially when you consider most computing capacity on the planet is networked, may already be adequate or even far exceed adequate. >And I'm not sure I'm convinced that this core "seed AI" is sufficient to emulate human cognition. It probably won't be. It will most likely be completely alien when compared to human cognition. At the same time, that doesn't preclude it from being vastly more powerful.