Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?
The idea of artificial general intelligence as we know it today starts with a dot-com blowout on Broadway. Twenty years ago—before Shane Legg clicked with neuroscience postgrad Demis Hassabis over a shared fascination with intelligence; before the pair hooked up with Hassabis’s childhood friend Mustafa Suleyman, a progressive activist, to spin that fascination into a…
Source: technologyreview.com