On: Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI

[sytelus]

Interestingly just ~5 years ago the team "AI" was frowned upon and people insisted in using the term "machine learning". The reasoning was that "AI" is just too convoluted a term because people will insist on comparing with humans and then whole question of consciousness invariably arises which renders scientific inquiry into undesirable debates.

[wildmusings → sytelus]

I think that the refusal to seriously engage with consciousness is the main obstacle to progress toward general AI.