About whether an AI that can't learn new knowledge deserves the AGI label.
Has this happened?
Yes 7 (6%)Not sure 26 (22%)No 87 (72%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether an AI that can't learn new knowledge deserves the AGI label.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
If OpenAI is going to call Astra AGI, then I would expect it to be able to update it's weights to new knowledge, because a generally intelligent being can indeed do this.
I can teach myself to play an instrument, and I'm not just building this huge lookup table that I have to access every time I play the instrument. I am updating the weights in my neurons.
Until AI can do this it's not AGI in my book.