AGI is the idea of creating general intelligence. Which almost certainly requires some reinforcement learning (the ways dogs and humans learn, by having a goal and an internal reward system).

Deepmind's Atari player is based on deep reinforcement learning, where increasing the score represents a reward:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGD2qveGdQ

I used to believe the moving goalpost idea, that AI is anything that isn't yet possible. I now disagree.

I saved myself a lot of energy by avoiding entirely the question "what counts as AI?" by switching to the question, "what counts as AGI?" which is a term with a clearer threshold:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intellige...