The reason I wanted to make this linkpost now rather than some other time is because discussions over AGI and whether or not LLMs are or aren't AGI, and the point of the linkpost is that the term AGI is for our purposes useless at this point, because we are now in the fuzzy cloud now that AI can do real economic work.

Some choice paragraphs:

It used to seem possible that, in practice, the differences between these definitions might not matter all that much. If AI capabilities progressed smoothly—say, from mouse- to chimp- to human-level, or from preschooler to high schooler to PhD graduate—then all of the above definitions might be fulfilled at roughly the same time.

These days, though, it's clear that AI capabilities are highly jagged. This makes it likely that there could be big gaps between when different definitions of AGI are fulfilled.

I think this was an underrated reason for why the term AGI lost its value, because as it turned out, certain definitions that do connect/correlate very well in humans are easier to disentangle than we thought for AIs (though humans are also jagged, but we don't realize because we are comparing against [...]

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First published:
June 13th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5bBCB2dxZh7R922rg/the-term-agi-is-almost-useless-at-this-point-linkpost

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