I suppose it depends how general one is aiming to be. If by general intelligence we mean “able to do what a human can do” then no, at this point the method isn’t up to that standard.
If instead we mean “able to achieve SOTA on a difficult problem which it wasn’t specifically designed to deal with” then PI-MNIST seems like a reasonable starting point.
Also, from a practical standpoint PI-MNIST seems reasonable for a personal research project.
I do think D𝜋′s original post felt like it was overstating it’s case. From a later comment it seems like they more see it as a starting point to add more steps onto to achieve a more general intelligence (i.e. not just a scaling up of the same thing). So instead of paradigms which are MLP + others or DBM + others we would have S(O)NN + others.
I suppose it depends how general one is aiming to be. If by general intelligence we mean “able to do what a human can do” then no, at this point the method isn’t up to that standard.
If instead we mean “able to achieve SOTA on a difficult problem which it wasn’t specifically designed to deal with” then PI-MNIST seems like a reasonable starting point.
Also, from a practical standpoint PI-MNIST seems reasonable for a personal research project.
I do think D𝜋′s original post felt like it was overstating it’s case. From a later comment it seems like they more see it as a starting point to add more steps onto to achieve a more general intelligence (i.e. not just a scaling up of the same thing). So instead of paradigms which are MLP + others or DBM + others we would have S(O)NN + others.