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How many teams are working on AGI in the world now? Do we have a list? (I asked already on facebook, but maybe I could get more input here.) https://www.facebook.com/groups/aisafety/permalink/849566641874118/

I would say not many at all! They might be working on something they call AGI but I think we need a change in view point before we can start making progress towards the important general aspect of it.

I think the closest people are the transfer learning people. They are at least trying something different. I think we need to solve the resource allocation problem first, then we can layer ML/language inside it. Nothing is truly general, general intelligences can devote resources to solving different problems at different time, and get knowledge of solving problems from other general intelligences.

0Thomas9y

I would say about 1000. 950 of them have no chance at all. But at least 20 of those which tirelessly exercising cnn or ML or some other neural network thing, have some chances to success. And about 20 other teams may be out there, which have some other, also decent ideas. I am just speculating, but this looks plausible to me.