Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: The Race for Artificial General Intelligence in On

Artificial general intelligence(AGI) is the term adopted within the AI community to describe agents that can perform multiple, diverse tasks at human level of superior. The current generation of AI systems most have shown proficiency on very specific tasks but have failed to generalized that knowledge to other areas. To many, AGI seems like the science fiction thing but the fact that is we might be one to two breakthroughs away from achieving some forms of AGI.

Last week, Microsoft announced a $1 billion investment in AI research firm OpenAI. Part of the investment is destined to the goal of building systems that can achieve generic levels of intelligence compared to humans. While most people believe that AI today is a bit more than sophisticated pattern recognition, the OpenAI team believes that huge computer power and some advancements in areas such as transfer learning might all we need. Imagine what could happen if we can assign $100 million of computer power to a multi-task neural network. What would it be…