Intelligence, and hence AGI, doesn’t require consciousness or emotions or sentience.
What human intelligence do you mean? Genius? Professional? Educated? Random person? “Dumb” person?
They are still different concepts of course, but I imagine that once one is achieved, the others aren’t far off.
I’m just trying to understand the implications of the current frontier model capabilities.
"highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work"
https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interv...
We cannot in a declarative sense define what is economically valuable work even now let alone into the future.
People take what they can get for pay. Very few individuals can demand a wage. The value of employment is obviously designed around that, not some arbitrary definition of “valuable”.
Of course an AI will accept $0/hr, it doesn’t mean it does the job.
Anyone who could accurately define the value of work would be wildly successful without having to try.
That is not a useful definition for me unfortunately.
Do you want to take a stab at defining/quantifying it? I'm s afraid anything specific you can come up with will also be useless.
How can you conflate the two.
> solving consciousness
We are very much not interested in that. We just need a proper problem solver.
For example, how do you know that “feeling pain” is not a functional prerequisite for a task. And that consciousness is a prerequisite for feeling pain
I wonder at what point consciousness is necessary… that is, if you can have anything like that without it.
To the point that solving consciousness (and combining it with intelligence) is what gives you the autonomous, recursive, self-improving thing otherwise it can only drive in the dark and make big mistakes.
To your point I think - it’s why we don’t see too many non-conscious advanced biology (it rarely survives against those with it).