[tptacek]

Subtextually, when people discuss AGI as a threshold, they're talking about superintelligence, which I'd roughly define as reasoning (not just applying algorithmic search) at the speed with which computers do lookups and computations, with large-scale data set contexts.

Right now, models are doing well-defined knowledge work tasks, applying relatively well-worn patterns (but with the thoroughness of a computer, which yields interesting new results). AGI is us breaking the threshold of "doing stuff people already do to identify and solve problems".

[irishcoffee]

Super intelligence is reasoning quickly? That’s what we’ve reduced it to?

Don’t tell Mozart.

[tptacek]

Superintelligence != Super intelligence.

[irishcoffee]

That’s your take? My phone inserting a space? Ha, alrighty.