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Here's my definition of AGI

Would I trust to let an AI, with zero human input or oversight, to diagnose, come up with treatment plan, and ultimately operate on my l5/s1 disc that's been bugging me for the better part of my adult life?

Would I take a novel drug "discovered" by AI (I mean entirely by AI, no human input, remember we are talking AGI) that promises to cure some chronic neurological disorder?

In both of those cases, they are the biggest hell-no's I can emphatically say.

Until I can say hell yes to that question, we aren't close.

Preempting those who say "Well your doctor/drug companies are probably mostly using/going to be using AI to do that" -- not what we are talking about here, and in both cases, not AGI (and I would probably find a new doctor)

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Humans are general intelligences. An average human can’t do either of those. Your bar is way too high.

Sounds like category error to me, you wouldn't trust teen or Einstein to do it either, right?

The G in AGI stands for general, correct?

Yes, but it means general the way humans are general. Clearly being a general intelligence shouldn’t require being any better at any individual task than the average human, or even the bottom decile of humans.

What is the way humans are general? How general is the average human? What constitutes average here?

The goalpost moving is getting exhausting.




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