what exactly is this finish line? AGI?
Yes.
Investors for sure don't care about people. Replace Accenture with OpenAI and you replace 800k people immediadly.
Geoffrey Hinton said it in his Videos: a normal person costs A LOT of money to train, educate, onboard, keep etc. they forget things etc.
AGI you train once, teach once then clone and copy and just run it.
We even might already crossed the line were it is already more cost efective to train 1-5 frontier models something it doesn't know yet than teaching this to a 1000 humans.
What exactly was the finish line for the Internet?
That's what they'll sell you. But fundamentally current LLM implementations seem to be the wrong methodology for 'AGI' and I don't think we're remotely close to having this.