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Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you’ve never heard of – O’Reilly

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While open-endedness could be a force for discovering intelligence, it could also be a component of AI itself. Join the O'Reilly online learning platform. Get a free trial today and find answers on the fly, or master something new and useful. Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology. Please read our privacy policy. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a grand challenge for computer science. Lifetimes of effort and billions of dollars have powered its pursuit. Yet, today its most ambitious vision remains unmet: though progress continues, no human-competitive general digital intelligence is within our reach. However, such an elusive goal is exactly what we expect from a “grand challenge”—it’s something that will take astronomical effort over expansive time to achieve—and is likely worth the wait. There are other grand challenges, like curing cancer, achieving 100% renewable energy, or unifying physics. Some fields have entire sets of grand challenges, such a

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