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paxysyesterday at 4:51 PM3 repliesview on HN

Very convenient to put "AGI" in all these agreements because the term is fundamentally undefinable. So throw out whatever numbers you want and fight about it and backtrack later.


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copxyesterday at 9:36 PM

The definition used to be "passes the Turing test" .. until LLMs passed it.

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ben_wyesterday at 9:22 PM

The problem with AGI is not that it's undefinable, but that everyone has a different one. Kinda like consciousness in that regard.

Fortunately, OpenAI already wrote theirs down. Well, Microsoft[0] says they did, anyway. Some people claimed it was a secret only a few years ago, and since then LLMs have made it so much harder to tell the difference between leaks and hallucinated news saying this, but I can say there's at least a claim of a leak[1].

[0] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/27/microsoft-and-op...

[1] It talks about it, but links to a paywalled site, so I still don't know what it is: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...

bwfan123yesterday at 5:30 PM

> fundamentally undefinable

Incredible, how an entire religion has sprung up around AGI.