alt Hacker NewsIf you define AGI as "can do the work of a human sitting at a computer, end to end", then I'd say comparing yourself to it on a specific skill is the wrong test. Can you hand it a role and walk away for a day/week/month?
I can’t yet. I think that I'd want at least two things it doesn't have: the ability to retain what it learned yesterday (without me carrying it in the context window and thus micromanaging it), and the ability to prioritize correctly, i.e. tell which of the n things it could do next is the one that actually matters.
Can't say for sure that those are enough, but not having them seems to be most of why I still have to "babysit" these incredible tools.
I agree, we're not at that kind of long horizon capability yet. You still need a human in the loop to do manual testing. For whatever reason, we managed to automate the skill before we managed to automate the focus.
So, for now, humans need to stay in the loop and do low skilled labor to keep the skilled work the models do from going off the rails.