If you’re being generous, you might take the apparent wide applicability of simple techniques and moderate-to-massive computing power as a sign (given that it’s the exact opposite of old-style approaches) that AGI might not be as hard as we think. It does match better with how brains work.
But this particular result is in no way a step towards AI, no. It’s one guy playing around with well-known techniques, that are being used vastly more effectively with e.g. Google’s image labelling. This article should only push your posteriors around if you were unaware of previous work.
If you’re being generous, you might take the apparent wide applicability of simple techniques and moderate-to-massive computing power as a sign (given that it’s the exact opposite of old-style approaches) that AGI might not be as hard as we think. It does match better with how brains work.
But this particular result is in no way a step towards AI, no. It’s one guy playing around with well-known techniques, that are being used vastly more effectively with e.g. Google’s image labelling. This article should only push your posteriors around if you were unaware of previous work.