Last month, DeepMind, a subsidiary of technology giant Alphabet, set Silicon Valley abuzz when it announced Gato, perhaps the most versatile AI model in existence.
To some computing experts, it is evidence that the industry is on the verge of reaching a long-awaited, much-hyped milestone: artificial general intelligence (AGI).
This would be huge for humanity. Think about everything you could accomplish if you had a machine that could be physically adapted to suit any purpose.
But a host of pundits and scientists have argued that something fundamental is missing from the grandiose plans to build Gato-like AI into full-fledged AGI machines.