About whether GPT-6 Astra's fast ARC-AGI progress means AGI is near.
Has this happened?
Yes 60 (50%)Not sure 36 (30%)No 25 (21%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether GPT-6 Astra's fast ARC-AGI progress means AGI is near.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
We are nowhere near AGI. They all talk the same, they can’t help but try to please and affirm us, and if you engage them for too long they become incoherent. They are facsimile machines. They are xeroxing language - but not even, because we can’t even duplicate our results. Too many people mistake the black box quality for magic.
Super useful, incredible tools, but not AGI. Try and roleplay a dialogue with one, make it whatever character and scenario, and see if it can sustain a coherent conversation for more than 30min with you AIM style (aol instant messenger, if that isn’t clear). Expert mode: never correct or adjust it mid conversation.
I’m not even talking about repetition and predictability. It’s nothing like talking to a person. And in a short amount of time it literally can’t form a coherent sentence.