alt Hacker NewsI’ve changed my mind on this and think we’re already at AGI, in a jagged way. Remember we used to talk about narrow AI, which was the chess systems that beat expert humans but could do nothing else. Now models can do a wide range of tasks in very useful ways. That’s the general in AGI.
Now it seems like this ill-defined term has various other meanings attached that are separate milestones:
1. Continuous learning 2. Human-like reasoning 3. Ability to adapt to new situations and modalities 4. Being smarter than the most smart humans
And probably many more.
It’d be nice if we could get some general consensus on terminology if we’re going to debate what has or could come.
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We developed AGI but then realized people actually want "omnipotent genie with infinite wishes and no monkey's paw gotchas" to qualify as AGI.
we're not in AGI until I can have robots that play live improvisational jazz in real time as well as humans with me (and possibly other humans). That is, it has to solve the "we didn't find a keyboard player /bassist for tonight" problem
(this is a very personalized definition of AGI)
> That’s the general in AGI.
No. That's the mete multiple in AGI.
> we’re already at AGI
Honestly - software that can read any long document (possibly educational) and answer complex detailed questions about it should have been sufficient.
We hit that a while back and the goalposts have been sprinting ever since.