Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next

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"I don’t think we’re anywhere close today to the level of intelligence of a two-year-old child. But maybe we have algorithms that are equivalent to lower animals, for perception. And we’re gradually climbing this ladder in terms of tools that allow an entity to explore its environment."

His points on grounded language learning and meta learning are really interesting...

The thing is that the importance of grounding has been well known in the field of AGI for many years.

Where I think the big impact of these guys in the field of AGI besides mainstreaming ideas that have been around for awhile, is in finding ways to improve the models created by deep learning to be more abstract and accurate. Assuming that is possible. They are putting out papers about things like disentangled representations. That is how deep learning get grounded language understanding.

"What are the elements of higher-level cognition? Causality is one element of it, and there’s also reasoning and planning, imagination, and credit assignment ..."

I don't think we have any clue about the answer to this question. Reasoning and planning, etc., it's just epiphenomena of consciousness.

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