<i>Why don&#x27;t we talk instead about how methods such as deep learning actually do work, and what problems that have been successfully applied to?</i><p>Well we do, but it&#x27;s clear to the community that we won&#x27;t get to AGI with deep learning classifiers and systems alone. So the questions we are asking are &quot;what would a system look like that results in X kind of behavior.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t disagree with your teleportation analogy either, but I think you weight it too heavily with impossibility. In fact there are serious people working on teleportation - at this point it&#x27;s quantum state teleportation [1] but it&#x27;s a start.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.aps.org&#x2F;prl&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;10.1103&#x2F;PhysRevLett.70.1895" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.aps.org&#x2F;prl&#x2F;abstract&#x2F;10.1103&#x2F;PhysRevLett.70....</a>