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Go through the various definitions of AGI. They didn't start to become "it has to be a god that can do everything 100x better than a human" until very recently. If you can't find 100 tasks an AI is better/faster than you at in an afternoon I'd call you a liar. I'm unsure why there's so much skepticism about LLMs being extremely useful / "intelligent" (whatever that means, about as well defined as AGI) despite this fact. My guess is that humans just have a base instinct to refuse to cede their superiority.

“Twenty years ago, I think people would have happily agreed that systems with the ability of GPT-4 or (Google's) Gemini had achieved general intelligence comparable to that of humans,” Hinton said. “Being able to answer more or less any question in a sensible way would have passed the test. But now that AI can do that, people want to change the test.” - Geoffrey Hinton[1]

[1] https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2024/04/04/tech-compan...

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