About whether people are moving the goalposts on AGI after GPT-4's release.
Has this happened?
Yes 37 (34%)Not sure 48 (44%)No 24 (22%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether people are moving the goalposts on AGI after GPT-4's release.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
No one has moved the goal posts. Let's see a computer pass a rigorous Turing test conducted by an interdisciplinary panel of expert evaluators. That has long been considered the gold standard for identifying the arrival of true AGI. GPT-4 is a tremendous technical achievement, but still far from that level.
The notion of some sort of technological "singularity" is just silly. It is essentially an article of faith, a secular religion among certain pseudo-intellectual members of the chattering class. There is no hard scientific backing for it.