In Search of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Summary: Looking beyond today's commercial applications of AI, where and how far will we progress toward an Artificial Intelligence with truly human-like reasoning and capability? This is about the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). There is no question that we're making a lot of progress in artificial intelligence (AI). So much so that we are rapidly approaching or have already arrived at a plateau in development where more effort is being put into commercializing existing AI capabilities than in improving it. As far back as November 2014 Kevin Kelly, cofounder of Wired magazine and prolific futurist observed "The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI." Well Kevin, you're right.