About whether Google's Genie or GPT-5 are anywhere close to AGI.
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About whether Google's Genie or GPT-5 are anywhere close to AGI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Neither are even close to AGI. Here is something they can't do and won't be able to do for a very long time:
If you're inferring in English and ask it a question, it will never be able to pull from the knowledge it has ingested in another language. Humans are able to do this without relying on a neurotic inner voice spinning around in circles and doing manual translations.
This should be enough to arrive at the conclusion that there is no real insights in the model. It has no model of the world.