About whether people are moving the goalposts on AGI as GPT-4 arrives.
Has this happened?
Yes 15 (11%)Not sure 22 (16%)No 101 (73%)
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About whether people are moving the goalposts on AGI as GPT-4 arrives.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The goalposts have not moved. The goalposts have never been moved.
An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period. If you were starting a startup for example, you wouldn’t need to hire any humans - you would just spin up enough AGI instances and they would design your product, write your code, deploy it, handle your financials, respond to any and all customer interactions, proactively navigate regulations and litigation, and everything else that needs to be done in the management of a business.
That is the goalpost for AGI. It’s an artificial human - a human replacement.