Closer to AGI? – O'Reilly

DeepMind's new model, Gato, has sparked a debate on whether artificial general intelligence (AGI) is nearer–almost at hand–just a matter of scale. Gato is a model that can solve multiple unrelated problems: it can play a large number of different games, label images, chat, operate a robot, and more. Not so many years ago, one problem with AI was that AI systems were only good at one thing. After IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess, it was easy to say "But the ability to play chess isn't really what we mean by intelligence." A model that plays chess can't also play space wars.