“When did you feel the AGI?”

This is a question that has been floating around AI circles for a while, and it’s a hard one to answer for two reasons. First, what is AGI, and second, “feel” is a bit like obscenity: as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in Jacobellis v. Ohio, “I know it when I see it.”

I gave my definition of AGI in AI’s Uneven Arrival: …My definition of AGI is that it can be ammunition, i.e. it can be given a task and trusted to complete it at a good-enough rate (my definition of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) is the ability to come up with the tasks in the first place).

The “feel” part of that question is a more recent discovery: DeepResearch from OpenAI feels like AGI; I just got a new employee for the shockingly low price of $200/month. — Read More