Google DeepMind Proposes Cognitive Framework for Evaluating AGI Progress
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Summary
Google DeepMind has proposed a new cognitive framework for evaluating progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), addressing the lack of empirical tools for measuring systems' general intelligence. The framework aims to provide standardized methods for tracking AGI development, and DeepMind is launching a Kaggle hackathon to build capability benchmarks that can assess AI systems' general cognitive abilities.
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But it can be difficult to know how close we are to this key milestone, because there's a lack of empirical tools for evaluating systems' general intelligence.
Tracking progress toward AGI
Google DeepMind proposes a cognitive framework to evaluate AGI and launches a Kaggle hackathon to build capability benchmarks
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