The ultimate vision of artificial intelligence are systems that can handle the wide range of cognitive tasks that humans can. The idea of a single, general intelligence is referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which encopmasses the idea of a single, generally intelligent system that can act and think much like humans. However, we have not yet achieved this concept of the generally intelligent system and as such, current AI applications are only capable of narrow applications of AI such as recognition systems, hyperpersonaliztion tools and recommendation systems, and even autonomous vehicles. This raises the question: Is AGI really around the corner, or are we chasing an elusive goal that we may never realize? Dr. Ben Goertzel CEO & Founder of the SingularityNET Foundation is particularly visible and vocal on his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence, AGI, and where research and industry are in regards to AGI. Speaking at the (Virtual) OpenCogCon event this week, Dr. Goertzel is one of the world's foremost experts in Artificial General Intelligence.

People regularly use objects in the environment as tools to achieve their goals. In this paper we report extensions to the ICARUS cognitive architecture that let it create and use combinations of objects inthis manner. These extensions include the ability to represent virtual objects composed of simpler ones and to reason about their quantitative features. They also include revised modules for planning and execution that operate over this hybrid representation, taking into account both relational structures and numeric attributes. We demonstrate the extended architecture's behavior on a number of tasks that involve tool construction and use, after which we discuss related research and plans for future work.