Comment Re:Define AGI first (Score 1) 151
We don't know how the brain works or what consciousness even is. Until we figure those out there will not be any real progress towards strong AI
It's worth noting that some developments come from somewhat randomly throwing things at the wall to see if they stick. Often, those doing the throwing are just as surprised as the rest of us when something does stick.
Consider: To have a machine (a robot, more or less) formed as human arm throw a baseball well, the usual approach takes some really heavy math. We, on the other hand, do it without understanding that math at all. There are a lot of folks working on various approaches to what we can loosely call "computational intelligence", and it is possible (not saying likely, just possible) that this will result in an intelligence.
After all, that's how nature did it. Multiple times. In multiple ways. Without knowing how intelligence worked.