Discussed in another thread, but what OpenAI might call AGI and what other peopl...

gadders · on Nov 23, 2023

I just tried to Google the Open AI definition of AGI and found a reddit thread about someone editing the Wikipedia definition of AGI to match the OpenAI one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/64wGaH0P9C

22c · on Nov 23, 2023

Interesting find! I get some astroturfing vibes from some of those edits, but I'm also a bit paranoid about those things.

The AGI article now seems heavily biased towards GPT/LLM style models and reads more like list of OpenAI achievements at certain points.

I much prefer Gartner's definition of AGI and I think when most informed people talk about about AGI, they are talking about this:

https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/a...

Animats · on Nov 23, 2023

Ah. Current Wikipedia text: " An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of intelligent agent.[1] If realized, an AGI could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform.[2][3] Alternatively, AGI has been defined as an autonomous system that surpasses human capabilities in the majority of economically valuable tasks.[4][promotion?]".

You can see the edit warring in the history, around "economically valuable tasks".

22c · on Nov 23, 2023

Now that Reddit user has removed their post, what timing!

ChainOfFools · on Nov 23, 2023

How possible is it that this is just an attempt to pare down the definition of AGI just enough to squeeze under the MVP threshold and claim ( with massive support from a general media that desperately wants a solid story hook to milk for the next 3 years) a place in the history books up there with Columbus, Armstrong, and Darwin etc? A mere Nobel would seem like table stakes in comparison.