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2025 Octoberxyzzy123

About whether AGI needs to resemble a human mind at all.

For _investment_ purposes the definition of AGI is very simple. It is: "to what extent can it replace human workers?".

From this perspective, "100% AGI" is achieved when AI can do any job that happens primarily on a computer. This can be extended to humanoid robots in the obvious way.

AI can do any job that happens primarily on a computer.

Has this happened?

Yes 15 (13%)Not sure 18 (15%)No 85 (72%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.