Posting by Ben Goertzel on Towards Grand Unified AGI on the Medium blog.
He details 4 key needs:
- More effective and fluid interconnection of different AIs into processing networks (which is the core thing the SingularityNET technical design solves).
- Incentivising of more developers to work on AGI rather than purely on AI that serves the business models of large tech companies and military/intel agencies (again something SingularityNET addresses from an economic/organizational perspective).
- Rich interoperation of sensory, motoric and cognitive subsystems, so that AIs can learn better from the natural and human world (SingularityNET is working on this via its collaboration with Hanson Robotics).
- Effective meta-learning — general-purpose learning algorithms that can learn how to learn better, learn how to best carry out learning in particular contexts, learn how to learn and also learn how to learn how to learn.
https://blog.singularitynet.io/toward-grand-unified-agi-c52d75c2f10e
The post focuses mainly on the last point.