[Jimmy]

>Each time this happens, the AGI pessimists raise the bar (a little) for what constitutes AGI.

Let’s say I have a coworker. We write code together, but we also hang out outside of work sometimes, maybe go for a couple rounds of golf, maybe discuss our shared passion for indie rock, he tells me his opinions on current news events or what’s going on with his family, all the ordinary sorts of things that people do.

When we get to the point where I have to reasonably wonder if my coworker is a biological human, or an AI masquerading as a human, then we have undoubtedly achieved AGI.

Not that we actually have to flood society with an army of cybernetic humans, of course. It’s just that AGI would enable such a thing, in principle.