> artificial intelligence gets equated with a Jarvis-like general AI that will talk to you like a superhuman servant to be fair, for a lot of researchers, that

> artificial intelligence gets equated with a Jarvis-like general AI that will talk to you like a superhuman servant to be fair, for a lot of researchers, that is the ultimate end goal, even for those who admit we are not even close to it. I for one first got interested in AI from an 80's movie, can't remember which, with a character who talked to his computer, which talked back. Since those early years, I haven't spent even one second working on actual AGI, seeing the plethora of subgoals needed to get there, but.. thinking about it.. plenty. that dream is a driving force behind more ML/AI researchers than maybe you think. Particularly in the RL community I would guess.