With regards the Seed AI paradigm, most of the publications seem to have come from MIRI (especially the earlier ones when they were called the Singularity Institute) with many discussions happening both here on LessWrong as well as events like the Singularity Summit. I’d say most of the thinking around this paradigm happened before the era of deep learning. Nate Soares’ post might provide more context.
You’re right that brain-like AI has not had much traction yet, but it seems to me that there is a growing interest in this research area lately (albeit much slower than the Prosaic AI paradigm), and I don’t think they fall squarely under either of the Seed AI paradigm nor the Prosaic AI paradigm. Of course there may be considerable overlap between those ‘paradigms’, but I felt that they were sufficiently distinct to warrant a category of its own even though I may not think of it as a critical concept in AI literature.
With regards the Seed AI paradigm, most of the publications seem to have come from MIRI (especially the earlier ones when they were called the Singularity Institute) with many discussions happening both here on LessWrong as well as events like the Singularity Summit. I’d say most of the thinking around this paradigm happened before the era of deep learning. Nate Soares’ post might provide more context.
You’re right that brain-like AI has not had much traction yet, but it seems to me that there is a growing interest in this research area lately (albeit much slower than the Prosaic AI paradigm), and I don’t think they fall squarely under either of the Seed AI paradigm nor the Prosaic AI paradigm. Of course there may be considerable overlap between those ‘paradigms’, but I felt that they were sufficiently distinct to warrant a category of its own even though I may not think of it as a critical concept in AI literature.