Challenges in Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

The goal of AGI is to make programs that can do lots of things. Unfortunately, it's not all that easy to program 'do lots of things' into a computer.

Naively, you could spend a lot of time hand coding every possible scenario that may occur – some gigantic switch statement that has a unique handler for every possible input.

But this is obviously going to take too long and is extremely inefficient and really only theoretically possible.