> if you were to bring Astra or Opus 5.5 back to 2017 and show it to the leading AI researchers at the time and ask them if it were a form of AGI what would they say?
They'd say it obviously wasn't. If you went back before the marketers started moving goalposts most people would laugh in your face for even calling an LLM AI because they know what AI is. They've seen what AI is in 2001 A Space Odyssey, I Robot, The Terminator, Short Circuit, etc. and they'd very rightly see LLMs as being a fancier ELIZA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) and not even remotely close to Data from star trek.
They'd say it obviously wasn't. If you went back before the marketers started moving goalposts most people would laugh in your face for even calling an LLM AI because they know what AI is. They've seen what AI is in 2001 A Space Odyssey, I Robot, The Terminator, Short Circuit, etc. and they'd very rightly see LLMs as being a fancier ELIZA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) and not even remotely close to Data from star trek.