Interesting point re cerebellum, it may be that a better measure of AI general capabilities, at least from where we're at today, is the ability to make a good c

Interesting point re cerebellum, it may be that a better measure of AI general capabilities, at least from where we're at today, is the ability to make a good cup of tea. An example of an embodied problem. [1] The lack of what you call animal-level common sense in these algorithms is tied to a lack of awareness. (Incidentally the cerebellum handles attention in part too!) This quote from later in the linked thread is apt: > I fully expect that the next Douglas Hofstadter is a 19-year-old currently playing with actual robots and BERT models, not clever thought experiments. They’ll write this generation’s Godel, Escher, Bach bottom up starting with tea-making-butler blooper reels. [1] https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1536026993510055938 https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1536026993510055938