Turning a blind eye to existing knowledge may result in reinventing things that already exist. Nobody expects students to follow the same concepts as their teachers, the point is just to leverage existing knowledge.
> I could even imagine a stumbling AGI being very stupid compared to just about any machine learning solution thrown at it - yet being undeniably AGI. Like a dog not being very good at DOTA, Star Craft or Chess, yet it undeniably possesses some kind of general intelligence.
People have debated whether animals are intelligent for ages. This is another type of problem, how to define intelligence. The most famous attempt in recent times is the Turing test.
Turning a blind eye to existing knowledge may result in reinventing things that already exist. Nobody expects students to follow the same concepts as their teachers, the point is just to leverage existing knowledge.
> I could even imagine a stumbling AGI being very stupid compared to just about any machine learning solution thrown at it - yet being undeniably AGI. Like a dog not being very good at DOTA, Star Craft or Chess, yet it undeniably possesses some kind of general intelligence.
People have debated whether animals are intelligent for ages. This is another type of problem, how to define intelligence. The most famous attempt in recent times is the Turing test.