Are We Any Nearer to AGI?
What should we expect from AGI? We should expect something that starts out with: · An understanding of complex text (legislation, specifications, instructions) with an ability to actively link multiple documents. · Ability to read and make sense of photographs and diagrams · Understanding of reality and moving pictures (videos) · Understanding of simple mathematics, physics and chemistry, with an understanding of how to increase the complexity to match the problem. In other words, the equivalent of a first year university student, with the addition of an ability to link many things – an ability that far exceeds a human’s severely limited ability (about four concepts). We have the problem that the person or persons will have insufficient “bandwidth” to describe the problem in the first place, and wil...
