Title: General AI Challenge - Round One: Gradual Learning,
Abstract: The General AI Challenge is an initiative to encourage the wider artificial
intelligence community to focus on important problems in building intelligent
machines with more general scope than is currently possible. The challenge
comprises of multiple rounds, with the first round focusing on gradual
learning, i.e. the ability to re-use already learned knowledge for efficiently
learning to solve subsequent problems. In this article, we will present details
of the first round of the challenge, its inspiration and aims. We also outline
a more formal description of the challenge and present a preliminary analysis
of its curriculum, based on ideas from computational mechanics. We believe,
that such formalism will allow for a more principled approach towards
investigating tasks in the challenge, building new curricula and for
potentially improving consequent challenge rounds.