About how to define AGI when nobody agrees on what the term means.
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Yes 33 (29%)Not sure 28 (25%)No 51 (46%)
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About how to define AGI when nobody agrees on what the term means.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
AGI can pass a rigorous Turing test. By rigorous I mean conducted over at least several hours by a panel of expert evaluators drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines such as computer science, philosophy, psychology, law, history, physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, sociology, and communications. While such evaluations are necessarily subjective, if a panel of experts agrees that a computer system acts like an AGI then it would be tough for the rest of us to dispute.
GPT4 is far from being able to pass such a test, and I don't expect GPT99 to get there either. A fundamentally different approach will be needed.