AI benchmarks and tests that claim to measure understanding, reasoning, intelligence, and so on are a dime a dozen. Chess, Go, Atari, Jeopardy, Raven's Progressive Matrices, the Winograd Schema Challenge, Starcraft... and so on and so forth.

Or let's talk about the breakthroughs. SVMs would lead us to AGI. Then LSTMs would lead us to AGI. Then Convnets would lead us to AGI. Then DeepRL would lead us to AGI. Now Transformers will lead us to AGI.

Benchmarks fall right and left and we keep being led to AGI but we never get there. It leaves one with such a feeling of angst. Are we ever gonna get to AGI? When's Godot coming?