Well I guess then, what I want to hear is is what their definition of ‘human equivalent AI’ is and how one would ‘create’ that. Sounds to much like Terminator to me. And any technology based on silicon microprocessors, ram etc., and powered by electricity, it wont happen except by which they simply change their definition of what ‘human equivalent AI’ is to be.
Maybe that is why they now term it ‘Artifical General Intelligence’ as you say.
Ever emulate Windows in Parallels on a Mac or Linux in VMware?
Emulating human intelligence in a similar manner will be inevitable (presuming the brain is the seat of human consciousness, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t) once a computer is made that is capable of simulating the laws of physics to a high enough degree of accuracy and with a high enough resolution to precisely replicate the behavior of the brain. Just like a guest Linux kernel can be fooled into thinking that it is running on it’s own machine provided the computer running the host OS has enough extra resources to support it and provide virtual interfaces (video processing, ethernet, etc) so the emulated human brain can run in a computer environment that can recreate the same conditions that the real thing experiences in the real world.
And once a human level intelligence is made, it is only a very small step to a super-human intelligence—an intelligence that is more clever than any living human mind.
The first super human AI will be the last thing we ever have to invent, unless we care to augment ourselves to keep up, of course. ;)
I sincerely hope that you know more about the field that *that*.
They may be much closer than you think. ...start with computers and robots that learn from their own experience...and then go from there.
Oh...and Google and IBM are only two out of several companies that are putting a whole lot of money into it.
Now, that said, the Transhumanists keep redefining their meaning of AGI, sometimes on a daily basis, so take their commentary for what it’s worth.