I am no MIRIan, but I see an obvious difference: nuclear fusion is easy and has been around for about 70 years , it’s controlled nuclear fusion that is hard. By contrast, there is no needle one has to thread with AGI, once it’s achieved, it is self-sustaining, and, arguably, is more like a nuclear bomb than like a nuclear reactor. So that’s an argument that AGI is not as hard.
However, there is an opposite argument: self-sustaining long-lasting nuclear fusion has been around for 13.8 billion years, and spontaneously arises in nature, while AGI has never been observed in nature, as far as we know, and “intelligence” in general artificial or natural, has not been observed outside the surface of this planet.
I am no MIRIan, but I see an obvious difference: nuclear fusion is easy and has been around for about 70 years , it’s controlled nuclear fusion that is hard. By contrast, there is no needle one has to thread with AGI, once it’s achieved, it is self-sustaining, and, arguably, is more like a nuclear bomb than like a nuclear reactor. So that’s an argument that AGI is not as hard.
However, there is an opposite argument: self-sustaining long-lasting nuclear fusion has been around for 13.8 billion years, and spontaneously arises in nature, while AGI has never been observed in nature, as far as we know, and “intelligence” in general artificial or natural, has not been observed outside the surface of this planet.