An agent capable of general intelligence approximates the
knowledge level on an
unbounded set of problems with little inherent knowledge of the domain.
The capabilities needed to support general
intelligence are not generally known (although many have been
empirically determined
to be of significant importance; e.g.,
learning)
Additionally, no theory exists for determining either the
necessary or sufficient structures needed to support particular capabilities
and certainly not to support general intelligence
(although see
Unified Theories of Cognition for work in
developing such theories)
The NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking
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