Yet I am very sceptical, is there any evidence that algorithm-space has enough structure to allow for effective search to allow such an optimization?
I count “algorithm-space is really really really big” as at least some form of evidence. ;)
Mind you by “is there any evidence?” you really mean “does the evidence lead to a high assigned probability?” That being the case “No Free Lunch” must also be considered. Even so NFL in this case mostly suggests that a general intelligence algorithm will be systematically bad at being generally stupid.
Considerations that lead me to believe that a general intelligence algorithm are likely include the observation that we can already see progressively more general problem solving processes in evidence just by looking at mammals. I also take more evidence from humanity than you do. Not because I think humans are good at general intelligence. We suck at it, it’s something that has been tacked on to our brains relatively recently and it far less efficient than our more specific problem solving facilities. But the point is that we can do general intelligence of a form eventually if we dedicate ourselves to the problem.
I count “algorithm-space is really really really big” as at least some form of evidence. ;)
Mind you by “is there any evidence?” you really mean “does the evidence lead to a high assigned probability?” That being the case “No Free Lunch” must also be considered. Even so NFL in this case mostly suggests that a general intelligence algorithm will be systematically bad at being generally stupid.
Considerations that lead me to believe that a general intelligence algorithm are likely include the observation that we can already see progressively more general problem solving processes in evidence just by looking at mammals. I also take more evidence from humanity than you do. Not because I think humans are good at general intelligence. We suck at it, it’s something that has been tacked on to our brains relatively recently and it far less efficient than our more specific problem solving facilities. But the point is that we can do general intelligence of a form eventually if we dedicate ourselves to the problem.