<story><title>DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/09/deepmind-says-reinforcement-learning-is-enough-to-reach-general-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmaven</author><text>Saying RL is sufficient to (eventually) achieve AGI is a bit misleading. One might similarly state that biological evolution is sufficient to (eventually) achieve biological general intelligence.&lt;p&gt;Both statements are probably true, but the parenthetical (eventually) is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burning_hamster</author><text>I think the title of the paper makes more sense if you consider that ten years ago, someone could have written a paper in a similar spirit with a different take on &amp;quot;what is enough&amp;quot;. Back then, it would probably have been titled: &amp;quot;Backpropagation of errors is enough&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The last ten years have shown that backpropagation -- while a crucial component -- is not enough. Personally, I would not be shocked to find out in the next ten years that reinforcement learning is not enough for an AGI (as there are aspects like one-shot learning, forgetting, sleep, and other phenomena for which the RL framework seems not a natural fit).</text></comment>
<story><title>DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/09/deepmind-says-reinforcement-learning-is-enough-to-reach-general-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmaven</author><text>Saying RL is sufficient to (eventually) achieve AGI is a bit misleading. One might similarly state that biological evolution is sufficient to (eventually) achieve biological general intelligence.&lt;p&gt;Both statements are probably true, but the parenthetical (eventually) is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>admk</author><text>That is if you believe biological general intelligence is the end goal of evolution, which I believe is highly unlikely.&lt;p&gt;Intelligence is simply a special side-product of evolution, there is nothing general about general intelligence. Many organisms can thrive without it.&lt;p&gt;There is also a non-negligible chance that all organisms would die out before reaching intelligence. We are fortunate to live in a world that produced us.</text></comment>