About whether ChatGPT counts as a general system in a paper on levels of AGI.
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About whether ChatGPT counts as a general system in a paper on levels of AGI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
it's undeniable that it's a general system.
it's very deniable, as Yann Lecun correctly pointed out, it can't even walk up a set of stairs (https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1721648856260050970).
It can't cook, it can talk about cooking. It wouldn't be able to get a pan out of a drawer. I know all we do these days is produce text tokens on the internet, but it is in fact in itself a domain specific task. If you can talk about opening a can of beans you're an LLM. If you can do that and actually open the physical can we may be a little bit further towards general intelligence.
We don't even have a full self driving system, the limited systems we have are not LLMs, and there isn't even a system on the Horizon that can drive and talk to you about the news and cook you a dinner.