The following is a list of challenges that need to be solved to achieve Artificial General Intelligence. This roadmap is meant to be a living document that will be updated over time as we learn more about AGI. [what?]

This list is collaborative, feel free to open a pull request.

Toy-level intelligence

✅ AI can beat a human at tic-tac-toe — 1972 [done thanks to Newell and Simon]
✅ AI can beat a human at checkers — 1994 [done thanks to Chinook]
✅ AI beats humans at chess — 1997 [done thanks to IBM]
✅ AI wins Jeopardy game — 2011 [done thanks to IBM]
✅ AI beats humans at go — 2016 [done thanks to DeepMind]
✅ AI beats humans at StarCraft — 2019 [done thanks to DeepMind]
✅ AI beats humans at poker — 2019 [done thanks to Facebook]
✅ AI beats humans at Diplomacy strategy game — 2022 [done thanks to Meta AI]
⬜ AI beats humans at flying drone race.
⬜ Self driving car beats humans at non-simulated car race (NASCAR, F1, etc).

Physical intelligence

⬜ A physical robot that can survive for a week in an urban environment.
✅ A robot that can cut a person’s hair - 2020 [done thanks to Stuff Made Here]
⬜ A robot that can put on clothes that fit them.
⬜ A robot that can paint a painting with a brush, copying a real thing.
⬜ A robot that can brew a great specialty coffee.
⬜ A robot that can pass the The Wozniak Coffee Test (to enter an average home and figure out how to make coffee).
⬜ A robot that can play a physical instrument (eg: piano, guitar) with two humanoid hands.

Athlete level intelligence

⬜ AI robot that can drive a normal car beats humans at non-simulated car race (NASCAR, F1, etc).
⬜ AI robot beats humans at golf.
⬜ AI robot beats humans at tennis.
⬜ AI robot beats humans at pool.
⬜ AI robot team beat humans at football (aka soccer).
⬜ AI robot team beat humans at ice hockey.

Storytelling intelligence

⬜ AI that can write a short story that is published in a major magazine.
⬜ AI that can write a short story that wins a major award.
⬜ AI that can write a novel that is published in a major publishing house.
⬜ AI that can write a novel that wins a major award.
⬜ AI that can write a play that is produced in a major theater.
⬜ AI that can write a play that wins a major award.

Artistic intelligence

✅ An AI generated painting or visual artwork wins a fairly big art competition — 2022 done thanks to Jason M. Allen and MidJourney
✅ An AI generated painting or visual artwork sells for more than $100k — 2021 [done thanks to Chromie Squiggle #9 by Snowfro and probably many other procedurally generated NFTs]
⬜ An AI generated music “band” has more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify or equivalent platform.
⬜ An AI-built sculpture is displayed in a respectable museum.
⬜ AI or robot that can skillfully jam with 1 human playing live.
⬜ AI or robot that can skillfully jam with a group of humans playing live.
⬜ AI or robot that can skillfully jam with a group of humans playing live jazz standards.

Social intelligence

✅ 10,000+ people have ongoing relationships (weekly interactions) with chat bots for entertainment. - 2020 [donethanks to Replika]
⬜ AI or robot can train a random untrained dog to “sit”.
⬜ AI or robot can do a 5-minute standup comedy show in front of people and make some of them laugh several times.
⬜ Robot can copy a new physical movement by copying a human (eg: learn to break an egg by watching a human do it)
⬜ Robot can copy a new artistic physical movement by copying a human (eg: a dance move)
⬜ Robot can do something new for the first time with human supervision and guidance (like a 5-year-old can bake cookies with adult supervision)
⬜ AI or robot that knows when to ask for help when the task is too hard for them.
⬜ AI that lies if convenient.
⬜ AI that can recognize explicit or implicit human-imposed limits and then break them if convenient.
⬜ AI or robot that can generate empathy from humans by being/acting cute.
⬜ AI that can respond empathically to human emotions.
⬜ AI that can EXPLAIN HOW they solved a task to an adult.
⬜ AI that can TRAIN an adult on how they solved a task.
⬜ AI that can explain how they solved a task to a child.
⬜ AI that can train a child on how they solved a task.

Economic intelligence

⬜ Robot that passes the Goertzel College Student Test.
⬜ Robot that can work at a gas station putting gas into cars and interacting with customers on reasonable requests.
⬜ Robot that can work at a gas station at the cash register.
⬜ Robot that can pass the Nilsson Employment Test.
⬜ Some AI is a self-sustaining autonomous economic agent. (e.g. there’s a web service, API or site that is running for 1 year without any human aid and is making a profit.)
⬜ AI creates a (crypto)currency that has USD $1M+ market capitalization (at 2022 adjusted value) for more than 6 months.
⬜ … that has USD $10M+ market capitalization (at 2022 adjusted value)…
⬜ … that has USD $100M+ market capitalization (at 2022 adjusted value)…
⬜ … that has USD $1B+ market capitalization (at 2022 adjusted value)…
⬜ AI that can discuss strategy with a human and add value.
⬜ AI that can discuss strategy with a team of humans and add value.

Intimate intelligence

⬜ Robot that can put a child to sleep.
⬜ Robot that can be a nanny for a baby while parents dine out.
⬜ … be a nanny for a toddler…
⬜ … be a nanny for a 5-year-old…
⬜ … be a nanny for an 8-year-old…
⬜ … be a nanny for two children…
⬜ AI that can befriend a human (human talks to AI at least monthly for 2+ years)
⬜ AI that can discuss philosophy meaningfully with a human.
⬜ Robot that can bear a human child. (!)

Meta-intelligence

⬜ AI that can get bored and look for new challenges.
⬜ AI that can find their own new interests by browsing the web or similar.
⬜ AI that has their own fairly unique personality.
⬜ AI or robot that can generate its own source of energy from nature.
⬜ AI or robot that can repair and upgrade their own hardware and/or software.
⬜ AI that can create new explanations on how the world works and share it with humans. (scientist mindset)
⬜ AI that can convince other humans or AIs of their new ideas.
⬜ AI that can coordinate huge amounts of (maybe all?) humans. (AGI as new world order)

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