About whether skeptics keep moving the goalposts as GPT-4 improves.
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About whether skeptics keep moving the goalposts as GPT-4 improves.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
There isn't and was never any movement of goalposts. They have been exactly the same for 70 years. We want creative systems (in the Deutschian sense) that can create new explanatory theories, which lead to actual new knowledge. When an AI is capable of creating new explanatory theories that are GOOD (not world salad), we will have human-like AGI. GPT is no closer to this goal than ELIZA (though it is much more useful).