The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.
Well that was what I meant, there is absolutely no indications there would be a need for consciousness to create general intelligence. We don’t need to figure out what consciousness is if we already know what general intelligence is and how it works, and we seem to know that fairly well IMO.
Of course that’s up for debate; we’re not even sure what consciousness really is. That is a whole philosophical debate on it’s own.
Well that was what I meant, there is absolutely no indications there would be a need for consciousness to create general intelligence. We don’t need to figure out what consciousness is if we already know what general intelligence is and how it works, and we seem to know that fairly well IMO.