About whether a generalist AI like DeepMind's Gato could apply for and hold a job.
Has this happened?
Yes 17 (11%)Not sure 34 (23%)No 98 (66%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether a generalist AI like DeepMind's Gato could apply for and hold a job.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Why must it apply for a job, rather than just DO a job?
Because being able to manage a business relationship is a part of the job. If you could show an AI which got a job, then wrote a simple script that automated the AI's job and then coasted for a year that would be fine, but your links are just humans doing that, I want an AI that can do that to consider it intelligent.
But thanks for demonstrating so clearly how AI proponents are moving goalposts backward to make them easy to meet.