About whether stateless LLMs can count as AGI.
Has this happened?
Yes 8 (7%)Not sure 22 (19%)No 84 (74%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether stateless LLMs can count as AGI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The term AI has always bothered me for this reason. If the thing is intelligent, then there’s nothing artificial about it… it’s almost an oxymoron.
There are two subtly different definitions in use: (1) “like intelligence in useful ways, but not actually”, and (2) “actually intelligent, but not of human wetware”. I take the A in AGI to be of type (2).
LLMs are doing (1), right now. They may have the “neurological structure” required for (2), but to make a being General and Intelligent it needs to compress its context window persist it to storage every night as it sleeps. It needs memory and agency. It needs to be able to learn in real time and self-adjusting its own weights. And if it’s doing all that, then who is to say it doesn't have a soul?