general intelligence
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →
Everything said about general intelligence, oldest first
Dec 8, 2017 bearish
Geoffrey Hinton: Backpropagation is a dead end for reaching general intelligence
“He says, I think we need a reboot. I think the path that I set everybody on, and fundamentally an algorithm called backpropagation, I think that's a dead end. I think if we want general intelligence, we're going to need to invent a new technique. We're going t…”
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Koller: General artificial intelligence is not right around the corner
“I think one of the big risks that we run as a machine learning community is the incredible amount of hyperbole that's going on right now, where it's like, we're gonna have general intelligence right around the corner. We're not. Ok, we really aren't.”
Aug 26, 2026 bullish
Acharya: Domain-specialized open models outperform general models through RL and reasoning traces
“If you actually have a problem that you can specialize the model around with your reasoning traces, You can start to create this compounding advantage in your domain for your customer base, where you're able to kind of shape the intelligence to be better than …”