About how we could tell that artificial general intelligence has been reached.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About how we could tell that artificial general intelligence has been reached.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Right. I think one reason that the definition of AGI is so contentious is that we're not that close to it. All of the current benchmarks are interesting but I don't see how we ever use those to declare that AGI has been reached. And quite frankly, I don't think we'd even care about most of them if we had a truly intelligent system.
For me, if hook up an AI with no training to a vehicle and it drives at a human level in arbitrary scenarios, I'd consider it to be AGI. It seems obvious to me that we're not very close to this.