Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan  —  Forecasting musical taste.  Detecting metastatic tumors.  Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer.  Creating virtual environments from real-world videos.

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