[jes5199]

this does seem like it would skip a lot of the questions about whether it’s even possible to make a machine intelligence

[2muchcoffeeman]

Naively, isn’t this the obvious first step?

The only known thing to have produced general intelligence is biological. Why would the first artificial general intelligence be a computer? We don’t even know what the brain does.

What’s the chances we stumble upon a hardware and software combination that was sufficient first go?