[throwawaylinux]

I don't know if this is progress towards AGI. All life and all intelligence is just taking input and matching it against previous inputs and/or some hard-wiring as a way to make a decision. So in that sense you could say that any improvement in pattern recognition is (slow) progress toward AGI.

I don't know if that is useful though, because I don't know if there is some progression from this to that.

In other words, using such broad criteria means you could say that improvement to any pattern recognition or any algorithm that takes an input and decides something to create an output is progress toward AGI, but it's clearly not.

So I'm not really sure if all this is any more than a souped-up "tree recognition neural network on a 16x16 pixel grid" that was the staple of "AI" neural net homework back in the 1980s, or even the old "expert system".