Well, supposing I'm not programming with god, rather I'm with a bunch of programmer friends, I still doubt the first artificial general intelligence (assuming w

Well, supposing I'm not programming with god, rather I'm with a bunch of programmer friends, I still doubt the first artificial general intelligence (assuming we happen to be the people who make it) will be a beautifully simple piece of software. It'll probably be horribly hacked together and hard to maintain, and only in time will a simpler way to do things emerge. For example, I'd reckon we'll find that a lot of things that today only make sense to solve with a neural net are actually perfectly representable using a simple(ish) algorithm, but it's unlikely we'll find that out until after we create an artificial general intelligence and know more about the problem of intelligence. In other words, we'll solve the problem, and then realise how much easier it could have been.