To reach AGI, computers would have to match human performance in the most challenging tasks, including language comprehension. As we’ve seen throughout this chapter, machine learning, which is currently the highest-performing type of AI, does not accomplish that. So, the missing piece to reach AGI is not just some practical limitation, say, that computers aren’t fast enough or that we don’t have enough data. Faster computers or more data might be necessary, but they wouldn’t be enough. In order to reach AGI, someone would need to discover a new, unprecedented methodology, since machine
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