[phaedrus]

But the G in AGI stands for General. I think the hope is that there is some as-yet-undiscovered algorithm for general intelligence. While I agree that deferring to a subsystem that is an expert in that type of problem is the best way to handle problems, I would hope that it is possible that that central coordinator not just be able to delegate but design new subsystems as needed. Otherwise what happens when you run out of types of expert problem solvers to use (and still haven't solved the problem well)?

One might argue maybe a mixture of experts is just the best that can be done - and that it's unlikely the AGI be able to design new experts itself. However where do the limited existing expert problem solvers come from? Well - we invented them. Human intelligences. So to argue that an AGI could NOT come up with its own novel expert problem solvers implies there is something ineffable about human general intelligence that can't be replicated by machine intelligence (which I don't agree with).