The solution to agi is not deep learning maybe with more compute and shit load of engineering it can work kind of baby agi.
My bet will be on something else than gradient descent and backprop but really I don't wish any company or country to reach agi or any sophisticated ai ...
I read the original version several times when I was young ...
The kid has been raised by an animal through observation, guessing and experimentation he cames to some discoveries and conclusions about life, death, elements of the universe, god ... he even become vegans and eat only falling fruits because he thought animal and plants are sentient just like humans but with different degrees of sophistication ...
Ibn Tufail is very famous in my country we have several schools, universities, hospitals in his name