Games of Knightian Uncertainty as AGI testbeds

Understand

Arguably, for the latter part of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, games have been seen as the drosophila of AI.

• Games are a set of exciting testbeds, whose solutions (in terms of identifying optimal players) would lead to machines that would possess some form of general intelligence, or at the very least help us gain insights toward building intelligent machines.
• Following impressive successes in traditional board games like Go, Chess, and Poker, but also video games like the Atari 2600 collection, it is clear that this is not the case.
• Games have been attacked successfully, but we are nowhere near AGI developments (or, as harsher critics might say, useful AI developments!).