> I would conjecture that these things are easy for us, not because we are amazing learning machines, but because we have millions of years of evolution, and ye

> I would conjecture that these things are easy for us, not because we are amazing learning machines, but because we have millions of years of evolution, and years as infants with caring teachers going for us. But if the argument is that AlphaGo is the right approach to creating an AGI, then we should at some point expect it to learn how to recognize the goal of various tasks without a huge amount of training. Maybe evolution provided us with something additional that is lacking in current generation of DL. And there are AI researchers who think that you need ontologies for the machines to understand the world, and that it's not reasonable to expect a machine to be able to learn everything from scratch, because the world is too complex for that. It's not reasonable to expect AlphaGo to replay evolution in order to gain the ability to do abstract reasoning.