The AGI/Deep Learning Connection

As an amazing course on AGI at MIT by one of my favourite lecturers ( @lexfridman) is about to begin (or might already have kicked off by the time this article is posted), I felt like writing about the very same topic that I have been reading for quite a few months now. "Almost all young people working on Artificial Intelligence look around and say - What's popular? That's exactly the way to kill yourself scientifically." Marvin Minsky, the famous American cognitive scientist and co-founder of MIT's AI Laboratory, never agreed for a way too simple approach towards AGI or replicating functionality of brain for that matter. But we still can't deny the progress deep learning has brought about in the field.