Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck
I'd dispute that AI research is stuck or that his proposed answer along the lines of "An international A.I. mission focused on teaching machines to read" is a good one.<p>Research seems to be cracking along with AlphaGo, self driving cars and the like. Recently DeepMind have been doing interesting stuff with dreams[1], imagination[2] and body movement[3], the last one being a little reminiscent of his daughter inventing a way to exit her chair mentioned in the article.<p>Re government intervention it's not something like CERN where you need billions in capital and it's not an area where a big government project is likely to be the best use of capital.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/google-deepmind-gives-computer-dreams-to-improve-learning" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/google-de...</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/article/googles-deepmind-creates-an-ai-with-imagination" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.co.uk/article/googles-deepmind-creates-an-a...</a>
[3] <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/10/15946542/deepmind-parkour-agent-reinforcement-learning" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/10/15946542/deepmind-pa...</a>