AGI is the new AI - foobuzz
People struggling to find a good definition for "AGI" (Artificial General Intelligence) seem to forget that we never had a good definition for "AI" (Artificial Intelligence) to begin with. Historically, the practical usage of AI has been "anything that we thought we couldn't do with a computer", such as, for example, natural language translation.
But now that AI is being integrated into every computer system and is being called "AI" in the market, this practical definition of AI is becoming obsolete. Consumers expect (or will expect) a computer equipped with the "AI feature" to be able to do automatic translation, so AI is no longer "something we thought we couldn't do with a computer", it's just part of the feature set of computers.
Does it mean that such systems are actually intelligent? Of course not. Just as AI has the word "intelligence" in it and it is now clear to everybody that AI is not intelligent, there is no reason to believe that AGI will be intelligent just because it has the word "intelligence" in it.
For example, the ""benchmark"" for AGI that seems to be doing most of the rounds in the AI buzzsphere is ARC-AGI. But one of the properties of this benchmark is that the puzzles are particularly easy to do for humans. Why would you use something that is trivial to do as a measure of intelligence? You are simply measuring stupidity for systems failing at the benchmark, and then measuring nothing once they succeed at the benchmark (and that is ignoring the fact that this benchmark is just an arbitrary objective function to optimize for). But the point is that current AI systems fail at the benchmark, so that is good enough. As I said, AGI means "things we thought we couldn't do with AI", and nothing more.
