AGI IS NOT MULTIMODAL

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

The multimodal approach, in which massive modular networks are optimized for an array of modalities that taken together appear general, will not lead to human-level AGI. Instead, we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the environment as primary and see modality centered processing as emergent phenomena. True AGI needs a physical understanding of the world, as many problems can't be converted into a problem of symbol manipulation. The most challenging mathematical piece of the AGI has likely already been solved - what's left is to inventory the functions we need and determine how they should be arranged into a coherent whole.