I'd put some money on AGI being pretty different to current ML.
Me too. It's possible to go the NN/ML (a lot of acronyms and no good name) way, and I don't think it's a blind alley, but it's a long way. Not the most efficient use of the computing resources, by far.
And yes, there are important problems, where the NN approach is particularly clumsy.
Just give those NN guys a shot. The reality will decide.
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