If you look at the old Singularity Conference presentation of Demis Hassabis (founder of Deep Mind), his main argument for using attention, reinforcement learning and deep convolutional networks (and other known systems that were on his slides) for reaching AGI is to use only techniques that the brain uses to be able to decrease the search space for reaching AGI.
I believe his thinking was already proven, and going for emulating and integrating the known algorithms that the brain uses is the fastest way to reach AGI.
I believe his thinking was already proven, and going for emulating and integrating the known algorithms that the brain uses is the fastest way to reach AGI.
https://youtu.be/Qgd3OK5DZWI