alt Hacker NewsThe broadly used definition of AGI has nothing to do with consciousness and consciousness emerging is irrelevant to whether a system can develop AGI.
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mbesto • yesterday at 6:54 PM
There's also no consensus on the definition of AGI, so all of this discussion is moot anyway.
It's funny how this definition has shifted. I feel like growing up in the 90s it was pretty clear that AGI was very related to consciousness. For instance, Commander Data in ST:TNG to pick one of 100s of popular depictions of AGI at the time.
Now the idea of AGI has been narrowed and scoped to economically viable work. Even Turing had a different idea when he asked "Can machines think?".