The Barbados 2018 List of Open Issues in Continual Learning

We want to make progress toward artificial general intelligence, namely general-purpose agents that autonomously learn how to competently act in complex environments. The purpose of this report is to sketch a research outline, share some of the most important open issues we are facing, and stimulate further discussion in the community. The content is based on some of our discussions during a weeklong workshop held in Barbados in February 2018. We adopt the reinforcement learning (RL) formulation, where an agent interacts sequentially with an environment, and the agent is provided a reward signal that unambiguously defines success. We want to explicitly consider some of the most challenging dimensions for a developing intelligence.