General AI Challenge - Round One: Gradual Learning
It addresses the problem of building more general AI systems for the broader AI community, but is incremental as it formalizes an existing challenge initiative.
The paper introduces the first round of the General AI Challenge, which focuses on gradual learning—the ability to reuse learned knowledge to efficiently solve new problems—and provides a formal description and preliminary curriculum analysis using computational mechanics.
The General AI Challenge is an initiative to encourage the wider artificial intelligence community to focus on important problems in building intelligent machines with more general scope than is currently possible. The challenge comprises of multiple rounds, with the first round focusing on gradual learning, i.e. the ability to re-use already learned knowledge for efficiently learning to solve subsequent problems. In this article, we will present details of the first round of the challenge, its inspiration and aims. We also outline a more formal description of the challenge and present a preliminary analysis of its curriculum, based on ideas from computational mechanics. We believe, that such formalism will allow for a more principled approach towards investigating tasks in the challenge, building new curricula and for potentially improving consequent challenge rounds.