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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kermit4karate" data-source="post: 9769332" data-attributes="member: 7053643">I think the term "AGI" is pretty irrelevant. AI will continue to advance, and whether someone eventually calls a version of it AGI or something else doesn't matter. The problem is that, like many things, there are lots of different definitions of AGI. We have scientists who can't agree on it, and companies eager to claim they've invented it. Then we have journalists and other people either eager to dispel it or declare its invention. But what someone calls it doesn't matter. What it can do is what will matter. If someone develops something capable of approximating human sentience, it won't have to actually be sentient. All it has to do is convincingly imitate it. If it can learn and adapt to real life situations almost as well as humans, then call it what you will. It'll be an artificial general intelligence. At some point -- my guess is between 2026-2027 -- someone will develop an AI with something approximating autonomous goal formation, where the AI is able to choose what it spends its processor cycles on, but humanity will not perceive or appreciate it in the moment. It'll take decades before we look back with perfect hindsight and say, "Yeah...that was the moment." I think by the time society at large accepts the existence of AGI, AIs will already be such a huge part of modern life that no one will even remember the day of its invention. It'll be like asking someone, "When was the day the first computer was invented?" and you'll get 100 different answers.It'll happen right before our eyes, slowly, iteratively, with new releases and different AI models over years, and we won't even perceive when the big leaps happened in the moment they happened. We'll only see it clearly looking back through the lens of history.</blockquote>

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