This depends on the definition of ‘toy projects’ that you use. For the sort of broad definition you are using, where ‘toy projects’ refers literally to toys, Richard Kennaway’s original claim that the embodied approach had only produced toys is factually incorrect. For the definition of ‘toy projects’ that both Richard Kennaway and Document are using, in which ‘toy projects’ is more closely related to ‘toy models’- i.e.attempts at a simplified version of Strong AI- this is an argument against AGI in general.
I see what you mean, but I’m having trouble understanding what “a simplified version of Strong AI” would look like.
For example, can we consider a natural language processing system that’s connected to a modern search engine to be “a simplified version of Strong AI” ? Such a system is obviously not generally intelligent, but it does perform several important functions—such as natural language processing—that would pretty much be a requirement for any AGI. However, the implementation of such a system is most likely not generalizable to an AGI (if it were, we’d have AGI by now). So, can we consider it to be a “toy project”, or not ?
This depends on the definition of ‘toy projects’ that you use. For the sort of broad definition you are using, where ‘toy projects’ refers literally to toys, Richard Kennaway’s original claim that the embodied approach had only produced toys is factually incorrect. For the definition of ‘toy projects’ that both Richard Kennaway and Document are using, in which ‘toy projects’ is more closely related to ‘toy models’- i.e.attempts at a simplified version of Strong AI- this is an argument against AGI in general.
I see what you mean, but I’m having trouble understanding what “a simplified version of Strong AI” would look like.
For example, can we consider a natural language processing system that’s connected to a modern search engine to be “a simplified version of Strong AI” ? Such a system is obviously not generally intelligent, but it does perform several important functions—such as natural language processing—that would pretty much be a requirement for any AGI. However, the implementation of such a system is most likely not generalizable to an AGI (if it were, we’d have AGI by now). So, can we consider it to be a “toy project”, or not ?