"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UyKsAEaNI&amp;t=4m50s"">4:50</a> No", the "transfer capabilities" of deep learning will never produce genuine AGI. The whole trick about obtaining genuine AGI is to skip 'simulation' entirely. An artificially intelligent machine must first be a 'conscious' machine! Everything is conscious to some degree in virtue of its basic and necessary interaction with its environment i.e. in virtue of 'its nature'. The system that reports on its internal 'nature' is reporting on its 'conscious experience' of its environment. Therein is the 'infinite complexity' the exclusive exploration of which constitutes both GI and genuinely potential AGI.,(reply>), @Akram Choudhary It depends what you mean by "BS". BS usually refers to deliberately contrived nonsense being peddled as 'real' or 'true'. I was only trying to make the point that AGI is impossible for the reasons I then went on to very briefly summarize. The mystery of 'consciousness' permits us to entertain 'any' hypothesis - especially from a philosophical perspective. Although I was very brief, I did try to explain why 'everything was conscious to some degree'. I cannot of course "prove it". I am merely asserting it. Of course I 'could' prove it (or any other relevant assertion) just by defining my own terms. As far as I know, no one yet has managed to satisfactorily define 'consciousness' but if 'you' were to assert that 'you' were conscious, I could ask 'you' to "prove it" and you would certainly fail. What 'is' "proof" in this context anyway??,(reply>), lot of unsubstantiated bs here <br><br>everything is conscious ? prove it,(reply>), @Steven Greidinger "emotion" is irrelevant to my thesis. "powerful question-answerer"? Really?   Anyway, I 'do' find it hard to explain myself on AI so I don't suppose I can blame you for not seeing what I was saying.  Maybe it's me.