About whether an AI able to do what Einstein did would be AGI.
Has this happened?
Yes 9 (8%)Not sure 23 (21%)No 80 (71%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether an AI able to do what Einstein did would be AGI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The problem is that so far, SOTA generalist models are not excellent at just one particular task. They have a very wide range of tasks they are good at, and good scores in one particular benchmarks correlates very strongly with good scores in almost all other benchmarks, even esoteric benchmarks that AI labs certainly didn't train against.
I'm sure, without any uncertainty, that any generalist model able to do what Einstein did would be AGI, as in, that model would be able to perform any cognitive task that an intelligent human being could complete in a reasonable amount of time (here "reasonable" depends on the task at hand; it could be minutes, hours, days, years, etc).