(Sorry this is mostly a link instead of a post, but I think it will interesting to the FAI folks here)

I helped arrange this interview with Peter Norvig:

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/b8aln/peter_norvig_answers_your_questions_ask_me/

I think the answer to the AGI question 4 is telling, but judge for yourself. (BTW, the 'components' Peter referred to are probabilistic relational learning and hierarchical modeling. He singled these two in his singularity summit talk)