alt Hacker News"vision had decades of head start, yet LLMs leapfrogged it in just a few years."
From an evolutionary perspective though vision had millions of years head start over written language. Additionally, almost all animals have quite good vision mechanisms, but very few do any written communication. Behaviors that map to intelligence don't emerge concurrently. It may well be there are different forms of signals/sensors/mechanical skills that contribute to emergence of different intelligences.
It really feels more and more like we should recast AGI as Artificial Human Intelligence Likeness (AHIL).
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This is all really arbitrary metrics across such wildly different fields. IMO LLMs are where computer vision was 20+ years ago in terms of real world accuracy. Other people feel LLMs offer far more value to the economy etc.
From a terminology point of view, I absolutely agree. Human-likeness is what most people mean when they talk about AGI. Calling it what it is would clarify a lot of the discussions around it.
However I am clear that I do not believe that this will ever happen, and I see no evidence to convince that that there is even a possibility that it will.
I think that Wittgenstein had it right when he said: "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."