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ChatGPT is AGI — but that’s not what we want to know
Why our obsession with definitions, goal posts, and benchmarks is blinding us to the real AI breakthrough.
Not long ago, my colleague Carlos Fenollosa made a bold claim in his book ‘La singularidad’: ChatGPT is AGI. My initial reaction was immediate dismissal. But knowing his careful reasoning, I kept reading. As I followed his argument, something unexpected happened — I found myself agreeing, though from an entirely different perspective. What I discovered challenges both those waiting for AGI’s arrival and those claiming it’s nowhere near: we might be asking the wrong question altogether.
Goal Posts
The first thing we often encounter is the debate about what is and isn’t AGI.
Here we’ll find a thousand different arguments and options, each driven by different interests.
When money is involved, there are those who have more interest in getting investment in AI will say that AGI is already here. That we can invest without fear, that there is no bubble. And they will create all kinds of hype trying to drive investments in this technology. On the other hand, we have organizations like OpenAI, who cannot say they have AGI because they would lose their contract with Microsoft. Or…
