Artificial General Intelligence: The Workflow Engine

Throughout this series on Artificial General Intelligence, one term keeps popping up without much in the way of an explanation, the Workflow. What exactly is a workflow and what is its role in an AGI? A workflow is a high-level description of a series of steps and sequences to be performed in order to achieve a pre-defined outcome. The above diagram describes a series of discreet activities which must be performed to'Update Weather'. Where we encounter branching, these activities can be performed in parallel.