A Mind needs a few things: The ability to synthesize sensor data about the outside world into a form that can be compressed into important features, the ability to choose which of those features to pay attention to, the ability to model the physical world around it, find reasonable solutions to problems, and simulate its actions before taking them, The ability to understand and simulate the actions of other Minds, the ability to compress events into important features and store them in memory, the ability to retrieve those memories and appropriate times and in appropriate clarity, etc.

I feel like as time goes on more and more of these important features are showing up as disconnected proofs of concept. I think eventually we'll have all the pieces and someone will just need to hook them together.

I am more and more convinced that AGI is just going to eventually happen and we'll barely notice because we'll get there inch by inch, with more and more amazing things every day.