Why should it take an AI design more than five minutes to process a significant enough amount of rich sensory data to push it to an adult level?
Upon review, I think you are correct that this plan does think it's solving all the major programming problems by the toddler stage, and the rest is just education.
But the question is still: If you understand how to make intelligence, why make one that's even nearly as low as us?
Why should it take an AI design more than five minutes to process a significant enough amount of rich sensory data to push it to an adult level?
I don't know, I have never built an AGI. One possibility is that the design isn't one that just needs to chew on static data to learn, and instead it needs to try to interact with existing intelligent entities with its first guesses at behavior and then use the feedback to refine its behavior, like human children do. This would slow down initial takeoff since the only intelligent entities initially available are...
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-would-it-take-to-move-rapidly.html