Goalposts

Maybe not the next big advance, but I'll be truly impressed when an AI system with no game-specific prior knowledge is able to complete a game of Pokémon Yellow within a reasonable amount of game time.

It requires:

- Natural language understanding (choosing the right dialog options)

- Interpretation of visual cues (navigating terrain and buildings)

- Hierarchical planning (training certain Pokémon to relatively high levels rather than a scattershot approach)

- Puzzle solving (for gym access)

and quite a bit more.