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I believe it is generally accepted that artificial general intelligence is considered unsolvable. It would be nice to hear that addressed more explicitly.

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Where did you get that notion? At least among people working in the tech sector, it is widely believed that we will achieve AGI one day, and that too with the the help of Turing machines. Except for Roger Penrose's argument against this, I haven't seen any opposition to this belief yet.

Mostly from conversations in CS grad school ~2012 with research professors doing related work, such as in ANN. At that time at least it was commonly discussed in academia. Perhaps a breakthrough has happened since but not one that I'm aware of.

For example, see the sections "Tests for confirming operational AGI" and "Feasibility" in [1], the $100,000 prize requirements in the Loebner prize [2], or "The integration bottleneck" in The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize

[3]: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-real-reasons-we-dont-have-agi-...

Nobody has told Geoff Hinton or Rich Sutton.

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