This is probably not the path to GI. First we would need a precise scientific formalism to accurately describe intelligence, which currently does not exist. Second, it may or may not end up being tied to consciousness, and there's a thing called the hard problem of consciousness, that possibly might not be solvable.

It might end up being the kind of thing where if you want to accurately model consciousness, you would need a computer the size of the universe, and it's gotta run for like 13.8 billion years or so, but that's just my own pure speculation - I don't think anybody even has a clue on where to start tackling this problem.

This is not to discourage progress in the field. I'm personally very curious to see where all this will lead. However, if I had to place a bet, it wouldn't be on GI coming any time soon.