About whether we will ever agree that generalized AI exists, given that hard problems get solved by clever search.
Has this happened?
Yes 4 (3%)Not sure 16 (13%)No 100 (83%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether we will ever agree that generalized AI exists, given that hard problems get solved by clever search.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I agree with most of your comment and it’s a point well made. It’s frustrating to see all the “moving the goalposts” comments all the time when it’s just a problem of not knowing the right goalposts.
In my opinion, we won't ever have generalized AI. Or at least, we might not ever agree that we have it.
But I disagree here. Eventually we’ll have something that can do everything we can do, just better, and at that point we might still be unable to draw a line, but we’ll at least be able to agree that a superset of human intelligence counts as AGI.