Good point—but it raises the question: is NSA 20-30 years ahead of the public research in AI? If yes, they should be close to AGI. If no, why they miss the opportunity?
I have no reason to believe that they are since they are primarily focused on signal intelligence and until very recently the key insights here all seemed to come from number theory, measure theory, linear algebra, and a few other fields of mathematics. Maybe the situation has changed some in the last 5 years, but last I checked they were still primarily interested in recruiting talented pure mathematicians, not the sorts of folks with engineering and programming expertise necessary to build AI.
Good point—but it raises the question: is NSA 20-30 years ahead of the public research in AI? If yes, they should be close to AGI. If no, why they miss the opportunity?
I have no reason to believe that they are since they are primarily focused on signal intelligence and until very recently the key insights here all seemed to come from number theory, measure theory, linear algebra, and a few other fields of mathematics. Maybe the situation has changed some in the last 5 years, but last I checked they were still primarily interested in recruiting talented pure mathematicians, not the sorts of folks with engineering and programming expertise necessary to build AI.