Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?

The idea of artificial general intelligence as we know it today starts with a dot-com blowout on Broadway.  Twenty years ago—before Shane Legg clicked with neuroscience postgrad Demis Hassabis over a shared fascination with intelligence; before the pair hooked up with Hassabis’s childhood friend Mustafa Suleyman, a progressive activist, to spin that fascination into a…

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