Artificial General Intelligence Isn’t Around the Corner

Philip Dhingra
Jul 26, 2017 · 2 min read

Right now, artificial intelligence (AI) is about as smart as a two-year-old. This argument is based on two hard AI problems that we’ve solved. One is pathfinding. Thanks to DARPA, we can now throw a car into the desert and tell it to go from A to B, and it’ll fumble its way there. Likewise, a two-year-old could waddle, however imperfectly, to get from one part of the house to another. The other solved problem is object identification. Thanks to MIT researchers, we can put a picture in front of a camera and an AI will tell you what the scene is about. Likewise…

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