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Timo Thee Converse
@timconverse
Head of Applied Machine Learning at Adobe. Ex-Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay. Co-founder of Jybe (acquired by Yahoo). Author, angel investor. Opinions are my own.
Feb 22, 2021 • 50 tweets • 8 min read
Why doesn’t a good negative history of attempts to get to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) exist? What is it about AGI that makes such a treatment not only hard to find, but hard to create?

In this thread, I’ll propose reasons for
1) hard to find, and
2) hard to create Background: David Chapman (@meaningness) tweeted that there have been around 8 attempts at AGI, and that “someone” should document each attempt and reason for failure (I took the scare quotes to mean that maybe he himself would do it, maybe he wouldn’t).