Artificial General Intelligence is Already Here

October 10, 2023

I tend to agree with Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Peter Norvig, who argue in their Noema Magazine article “Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here” that today’s most advanced AI models should already be recognised as the first true examples of AGI.

Their key insight: AI systems used to perform better than humans on some specific narrow tasks (e.g. chess). But they couldn’t do anything else.

Now the situation is reversed: you can still find human experts that give better answers than ChatGPT in each specific subfield, but no single human can give good answers on such a wide range of topics (and communicate in so many different languages) - if that person existed, they would be considered a genius with an unprecedented level of knowledge.