""Artificial General Intelligence" which has been clearly hijacked to mean something else."

I mean, the goalposts shifted. The game Go used to be considered to require true AI. Passing the turing test. Scanning, analyzing and improving complex codebases largely on their own would have been considered some sort of AGI by me 6 years ago.

Now sure, we all know they lack true understanding. But it gets blurry at times what that does mean.

But I don't buy that there will be a magic point, where self improving AGI explodes towards singularity. The current approach is very, very energy and compute intense and that is unlikely to change.