> using your environment to gain an evolutionary advantage.
That's more like robotics. Except for evolution part. Does AGI require breeding? Software can easily multiply itself. That's hardware is the problem then.
Think about what incentives do you have to live - it may sound rough but pain and ultimately death are the ultimate things everyone is trying to avoid.
Intelligence emerges as you are trying to survive longer. Reproduction is the ultimate way of cheating death.
Environment does not necessarily needs to mean physical environment, but until the "AI" does not recognize that it is in danger of nonexisting and starts to behave in ways to avoid it it cannot, imho, make the leap to AGI and it's just a really sophisticated tool.
> Intelligence emerges as you are trying to survive longer.
That's not a given - I don't even know if it's true. The longest-lived species are not very intelligent, relative to humans. Intelligence is a tool that may or may not evolve in organic species. Frankly, that has very little to do with defining what artificial intelligence is.
Intelligence emerges as you are trying to survive longer. Reproduction is the ultimate way of cheating death.
Environment does not necessarily needs to mean physical environment, but until the "AI" does not recognize that it is in danger of nonexisting and starts to behave in ways to avoid it it cannot, imho, make the leap to AGI and it's just a really sophisticated tool.