Scalable Bio- based intelligence first... then just let it loose on the big data.
They are both actually Bio-based approaches. Even the convolution/ pooling networks 'big data' uses are based/ inspired by biological systems.
In my opinion they won't achieve human level condition from current 'big data' schemas. They are missing something fundamental to cognition, and the only way to obtain/ achieve it is full Bio-based engineering/ modelling. They are currently taking just one small approximate function CNN of the brain and trying to recreate the whole.
If we reproduce enough tyres and improve them enough... perhaps one day we will get a car... err nope.
Hoping that the output from a system will one day hopefully generate/ improve the algorithms that drive it is nonsensical to me. Intelligence is not embedded in the data, the data is a product of intelligence... you can't work backwards.
In a true AGI system data improves intelligence, a CNN is just a filter, an algorithm to sort and find correlations and the data it receives does not improve its performance.
You can not separate intelligence and data, for an AGI to be intelligent is requires data during its development, but it’s not the human formatted data that ‘big data’ is using.
That data has been altered/ filtered by human written programs to make it easy to understand and digest. Humans have generic methods we apply to information; we have to because our written language is so limited.
Although the words you are reading now make sense to you, they are many levels of abstraction away from how your cognitive system understands them; you can’t work back from these words to figure out how to build the system that generated them. Ok you can figure out some of the rules the system uses to generate the text… but then you hit the wall, the problem of irreducibility. This is just one of the hurdles/ reasons why I don’t think ‘big data’ schemas will ever achieve human level intelligence/ cognition.
‘Big data’ is just a phase, a catchword to fish/ temp funding by the money making/ financial wing of the corporations who are really, secretly waiting/ hoping that the next bit of insight gleaned by the Bio driven neuroscientists will further increase their fortunes.