About whether an AI that fools most people in conversation counts as human-level AGI.
Has this happened?
Yes 29 (23%)Not sure 18 (15%)No 77 (62%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether an AI that fools most people in conversation counts as human-level AGI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
When people talk about human-level AGI, they are not referring to an AI that could pass as a human to most people - that is, they're not simply referring to a program that can pass the Turing test.
They are referring to an AI that can use reasoning, deduction, logic, and abstraction like the smartest humans can, to discover, prove, and create novel things in every realm that humans can: math, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, art, sociology, etc.