As someone who spent countless nights tweaking Edge Detectors (looking at you, Canny), morphology operators, etc., building models to recognize 10 handwritten digits, let me tell you: the current set of LLMs (even the smaller ones) seem like magic. I had never imagined a computer would do such things in my lifetime.

Compared to what we had in 2016 with RNNs, this is effectively “AGI”

I bet you’d think they are not even conscious.

For whom? That is a fantastically ill-defined test. Everyone here is comfortable throwing around this or that is or isn't AGI which is fun because, at the same time, nobody seems to have a testable definition.

It makes either position pointless to argue.

What does it mean to run a model 24 hours a day?

Aren't we way way past that already? QPS to any of the frontier models for a given point in time is most likely (far) greater than zero.

I mean the laundromat runs the machines pretty much 24 hours a day but a washing machine is not AGI.

Directly - something can be useful without being AGI.

It always has been. The idea around here that we can actually define intelligence and point to it is sophomoric and incredibly frustrating.

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In a closed a press briefing earlier today, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman offered an unusually direct formulation of that message, ending the session with: “Welcome to the AGI era.”

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