alt Hacker NewsPlease consider the context of the question. An artificial intelligence only needs to have the cognitive abilities of a random average human in order to be "AGI".
The average human has never published a bestselling book. A person who has published a bestselling book is an above-average writer. And, therefore, an artificial intelligence capable of writing a bestselling book would be above an average human at the task of writing books. Therefore, somewhere beyond an AGI.
Attempting to redefine AGI to "being better than most humans at most tasks" is moving the goalposts towards artificial superintelligence.
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Are you mistaking "average" for the literal average number of people? I am referring to average as in ability. Most authors are pretty average people, sure, the above average ones write war and peace etc. But most books these days are not from these extraordinary people.
This subthread was about the root list of claims being "more like ASI instead of AGI." By definition being superhuman means doing things no human can.