I suspect that the closest thing to a “general intelligence module” might be a “skill acquisition module”—e.g. not something that would be generally intelligent by itself, but rather something that could generate more specialized modules that were optimized for some specific domain.
E.g. humans are capable of acquiring a wide variety of very different and specialized skills with sufficient practice and instruction, but we’re probably constrained by whether the domain can be easily mapped into one of our native architectures. My hunch is that if you could give a baseline human access to a few more domains that they could natively think in and also enabled them to map new concepts into those domains (and vice versa), they could easily come across as superintelligent by being capable of coming up with modes of thought that were completely unfamiliar to us and applying them to problems that weren’t easily handled with normal modes of thought. (On the other hand, they would have to come up with those mappings by themselves, since there was nobody around to give them instructions that was communicated in terms of those domains.)
I suspect that the closest thing to a “general intelligence module” might be a “skill acquisition module”—e.g. not something that would be generally intelligent by itself, but rather something that could generate more specialized modules that were optimized for some specific domain.
E.g. humans are capable of acquiring a wide variety of very different and specialized skills with sufficient practice and instruction, but we’re probably constrained by whether the domain can be easily mapped into one of our native architectures. My hunch is that if you could give a baseline human access to a few more domains that they could natively think in and also enabled them to map new concepts into those domains (and vice versa), they could easily come across as superintelligent by being capable of coming up with modes of thought that were completely unfamiliar to us and applying them to problems that weren’t easily handled with normal modes of thought. (On the other hand, they would have to come up with those mappings by themselves, since there was nobody around to give them instructions that was communicated in terms of those domains.)