r/singularity - The Birth of Self Improving Artificial Intelligence

I'm not sure if I have questions, or what. I suppose I'll ask the obvious. What defines it as AGI? Was the system hand-crafted, or was it derived from the same methods as machine learning (fitness algorithms)? Can this development be more attributed to increased computing power, or a better understanding of AI, and if the latter, more attributed to an understanding of logic, or of neuroscience? Do you think that these developments will accelerate the development of AGI superintelligence?