News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by 8ytecoder on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:39PM (#27463317)
I'm assuming you are aware of the difficulties for machines to do even the most basic of things that a living being can do with a brain the size of a pea. A housefly can fly and navigate effortless through most complex scenarios that it evolved to navigate (even though the same fly can get stuck behind a glass window and eventually die).

So yeah, even getting that level of intelligence would be a huge win. However, most people mean close to human level intelligence when they mean AGI even if it's one narrow specialization.

Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by Blikkentrekker on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:56PM (#27463496)
> even if it's one narrow specialization.

Obviously that already exists even with g.o.f.a.i.s so that is not that impressive.

The impressive thing is something more general than that.

Re:DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach... by criddell on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:58PM (#27465010)
Doesn't the G in AGI imply that narrow specializations aren't the target?