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Re:I don't think AGI is right around the corner by djoldman on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:25PM (#44486156)
> An AI (a computer program) that is better at [almost] any task than 5% of the human specialists in that field has achieved AGI.

Let's say you have a candidate AI and assert that it indeed has passed the above benchmark. How do you prove that? Don't you have to say which tasks?

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Re:I don't think AGI is right around the corner by Buttons840 on Sunday July 06, 2025 @11:42PM (#44486549)
Well, to state it crudely, you just have to find a dumb person who is inferior to the AI at every single intellectual task. This is cruel, and I don't envy that dumb person, but who knows, I might end up being that dumb person--we all might.
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