Ben, If I am beating a dead horse, please feel free to ignore this, but I'm imagining a prototype that shows glimmerings of AGI. Such a system, though not useful or commercially viable, would sometimes act in interesting, even creepy, ways. It might be inconsistent and buggy, and work in a limited domain.
This sets a low barrier, since existing systems occasionally meet this description. The key difference is that the hypothesized prototype would have an AGI engine under it and would rapidly improve. Joshua
According the approach I have charted out (the only one I understand), the true path to AGI does not really involve commercially valuable intermediate stages. This is for reasons similar to the reasons that babies are not very economically useful. .....But my best guess is that this is an illusion. IMO by far the best path to a true AGI is by building an artificial baby and educating it and incrementally improving it, and by its very nature this path does not lead to incremental commercially viable results.
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