Comment by candiodari

Aren't you a little bit worried ? I mean there has been a long history of "you can't do this with computers".

It started with carrying out list of simple instructions, then doing anything with images, then recognizing images, then drawing images, then simple games chess, recognize audio (though people realized this was stupid in the 60s with IBM speech synthesizers and so today people don't remember), and then Go (and less well known: backgammon, video games, ...). For most of those we now roll our eyes and go "how could they have been so stupid ?".

As for practical applications: robots run something between 3/4ths and 5/6ths of the stock market. Maybe you're unaware of this but that's the thing that decides how and where humans work (not just the ones also doing stocks, anyone working at any public company is partially directed by it, which in practice is nearly everyone).

AIs talk to humans more than humans do. AIs produce more writing than humans do. AIs judge more humans (for insurances, or creditworthiness) than humans do. Despite what you think AIs actually drive just a little under 1 millionth of total miles driven in the US today, going up exponentially. AIs currently drive a little more than a 1000 person city does.

In experimental settings, AIs have beat humans at convincing other people that they're human. At "chatting up" humans. Seriously. Not that it seems to take much at all to convince humans you're sentient: iRobots have convinced soldiers to threaten army technicians with guns into repairing them. There wasn't even that much AI involved, but that's got to count for something.

In research, I would argue there are already multifaceted artificial intelligences in reinforcement learning. There is nothing in those atari game playing AIs about the games. There used to be the score of the game, but the modern ones don't even have that. They can play any atari game, from Montezuma's revenge to pacman, which I'd argue are very different indeed. There must be some measure of "multifaceted" in there, surely ?

But let's keep it simple: could you make this problem a bit more accurate ? For example, which animals would you say exhibit an acceptable level of "multifaceted" intelligence ? Why do those animals qualify ? What would a good test be ? I'd love to find an interesting test for this.