About an Ask HN thread on what AGI means and whether we already have it.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About an Ask HN thread on what AGI means and whether we already have it.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I might be wrong, but as far as I know, the definition of AGI is still evolving and remains somewhat ambiguous.
My idea of AGI is a system that can make novel discoveries, invent new mathematics and physics, solve Millennium Prize level problems, and think originally.
Perhaps a better definition would be a system that can systematically tackle and solve problems from lists such as the following:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_problems