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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 August 2010 11:24:04PM *  5 points [-]

What is currently called the AGI field will probably bear no fruit, perhaps except for the end-game when it borrows then-sufficiently powerful tools from more productive areas of research (and destroys the world). "Narrow AI" develops the tools that could eventually allow the construction of random-preference AGI.