The Inevitability Thesis of AI

The inevitability thesis of AI is something like if we just keep making progress on simpler problems, then we will eventually arrive at a kind of general intelligence that undergirds human thinking. So my argument is that's actually unscientific because what we're supposed to be doing is evaluating the evidence that we have on hand for the inevitability thesis in the first place. And so you might say that we're on a trajectory to continue to chisel away at narrow problems. Go was the last game to fall to computation. The system was alpha zero, which itself was a sort of evolved system from alpha go. Both were developed out of Google Labs. I think their subsidiary is DeepMind actually