[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> Seriously?

Yes, seriously.

>> The goal is to learn how to infer algorithmic processes directly from data.

And they demonstrated nothing like that. An "algorithmic process" is not finding the weights for a function given some carefully designed bias. An algorithm is a sequence of operations that calculates the result of a function. Nothing like that has been demonstrated in the linked paper at all.

>> General algorithmic capability is one of the key traits that we think AGI should have, and it’s currently missing. If you have a better approach for getting there quicker than everyone else in the field, please share it.

It's not missing at all, you just wont' find it in neural nets. And my PhD and post-doc research is exactly on that sort of thing, learning programs, algorithms and, currently, solvers for general planning problems.