About whether today's AI meets the definition of AGI as matching capable humans.
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About whether today's AI meets the definition of AGI as matching capable humans.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Heck, by that definition it needs to be able to count to 100 and know when it’s appropriate to use a syllogism.
It’s things like that that leave me convinced it’s not really AGI. The symbolic reasoning element doesn’t really seem to be there. And I’m not prepared to call something general intelligence if it can’t do that.
Also, maybe even more to the point, it can’t even learn. No, pre- and post-training are not the same thing.