alt Hacker NewsNo, independently of OpenAI's definition. If we have AGI there's no reason we'd need to have humans working jobs that only involve typing stuff into a computer and going to meetings all day*. And if all those jobs are eliminated, I guess we'll have bigger problems than to debate whether we've achieved AGI or not.
* Which is a much larger class of jobs than just engineering. And also excludes field engineers and other types of engineers that need a physical body for interacting with customers, etc.**
** Though even then, you could in theory divvy up the engineering part and the customer interaction part of the job, where the human that's doing the interaction part is primarily a proxy to the engineering agent that's in his earbud.
But I also think that's a bad line to draw. Many of those jobs include a lot more than just typing into a computer. By your criteria we'd also be replacing most scientists, as so many are not doing physical experiments and using the computer to read the work of peers and develop new models. But also does get definition intended to exclude jobs where the computer just isn't the most convenient interface? We should be including more in that case since we can then make the connection for that interface.
I think we need a much more refined definition. I don't like the broad strokes "is computer". Nor do I like skills based definitions. They're much easier to measure but easily hackable. I think we should try to define more by our actual understanding of what intelligence is. While we don't have a precise definition we have some pretty good answers already. I know people act like the lack of an exact definition is the same as having no definition but that's a crazy framing. If we had that requirement we wouldn't have any definitions as we know nothing with infinite precision. Even physics is just an approximation, but it's about the convergence to the truth [1]
[side note] the conventional way to do references or notes here is with brackets like I did. So you don't have to escape your asterisks. *Also* if it lead a paragraph with two spaces you get verbatim text
[0] farmer, construction worker, plumber, machinist, welder, teacher, doctors, etc
[1] https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html