[jononor]

Which AGI are you referring to?

[gorbypark]

Just a guess as I'm not OP, but 2017 is when the "Attention Is All You Need" paper was published.

[adastra22]

Attention-based transformer architectures of the same type as GPT were first published in 2017.

[dragonwriter]

The architecture is not AGI. Whether AGI can be acheived within it is perhaps an open question, but that the architecture itself does not constitute AGI is pretty clear.

[adastra22]

Transformer architectures like GPT are:

1. Artificial, AKA man-made;

2. General, meaning they are able transfer knowledge to solve arbitrary problems outside of their training domain; and

3. Intelligent in the sense of being able efficiently find efficient solutions to problems which exploit structure of the problem domain.

Artificial General Intelligence: A.G.I.

If you think AGI should mean something else, then that's because the goal posts have moved since the term was defined by GOFAI AI researchers some 2 or 3 decades ago. Some people in the 90's and 00's thought that merely having an AGI system (like ChatGPT) would result in runaway self-improvement leading to god-like singular powers that take over the world. Now some people have taken "AGI" to mean this fictional (and impossible) thing. That's a confusion on their part.