I wouldn't disagree with that. Astra was the first model that is actually really smart, doesn't constantly hallucinate, writes high quality code etc.

If it isn't AGI, it's at least something that shows that "AGI" is not a useful label. You wouldn't argue that we don't have Artificial General Flying because planes can't flap their wings.

A plane or a drone can do any aerial movement a bird can (in a shorter, less energy efficient manner). Can Astra do a software dev job alone without supervision? Let alone any other job.

> A plane or a drone can do any aerial movement a bird can

Have you ever seen a bird? Lol

In any case that's kind of my point. The existence of small niches that bird are good at that planes can't do doesn't mean that we can't fly.

The existence of small niches like writing prompts and counting letters in strawberry that AI doesn't do doesn't mean that our jobs are safe.

People think "we don't have AGI yet because AI still can't do X, so we're safe from Y" without realising that Y doesn't really require X.

>> Astra was the first model that is actually really smart, doesn't constantly hallucinate, writes high quality code etc.

Nope, that was Fable.

Actually that was every model that was released so far, and only in hindsight people noted that it actually was not.