Human-Complete Problems
Why define a set of problems in such a human-centric way?
.. Chess-boxing and Iron Man are real-world examples of such compound games.
.. Each of these exists as a universe of open-ended variety. Lee Sedol’s “make a living” game does not just involve the “beat everybody else at Go” finite game. It likely also includes: win awards, trash-talk other Go players, make the New Yorker cover, drink tea, respect your elders, eat bibimbap, and so on. AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go, but hasn’t yet proven better than him at the specific infinite game problem of Making a Living as Lee Sedol (which would mean continuing to fulfill the ineffable potential of being Lee Sedol better than the human Lee Sedol himself manages). It also hasn’t figured out the problem of Making a Living as AlphaGo
.. When I was in grad school studying control theory — a field that attracts glum, pessimistic people — I used to hang out a lot with AI people, since I was using some AI methods in my work. Back then, AI people were even more glum and pessimistic than controls people, which is an achievement worthy of the Nobel prize in literature.