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Defining AGI as “can reason about 5MLOC” is ridiculous. When do the goal posts stop moving? When a computer can solve time travel? Babies have behavior all the time that is no more differentiable from what an LLM does on a normal basis (including terrible logic and hallucinations).

The majority of people on the planet can barely reason about how any given politician will affect them, even when there’s a billion resources out there telling them exactly that. No reasonable human would ever define AGI as having anything to do with coding at all, since that’s not even “general intelligence”… it’s learned facts and logic.




Babies can at least manipulate the physical world. Large language model can never be defined as AGI until it can control a general purpose robot, similar to how human brain controls our body's motor functions.


You’re commenting that on an article about how Claude literally can do what you’re talking about.


As generally intelligent beings, we can adapt to reading and producing 5M LOC, or to live in arctic climates, or to build a building in colonial or classical style as dictated by cost, taste, and other factors. That is generality in intelligence.

I haven't moved any goal posts - it is your definition which is way too narrow.


You’re literally moving the goalposts right now. These models _are_ adapting to what you’re talking about. When Claude makes a model for haikus, how is that different than a poet who knows literally nothing about math but is fantastic at poetry?

I’m sure as soon as Claude can handle 5MLOC you’ll say it should be 10, and it needs to make sure it can serve you a Michelin star dinner as well.

That’s not AGI. Stop moving the goalposts.


My point was it's not AGI, I don't even know what you're talking about or who you're replying to anymore.


> When do the goal posts stop moving?

When someone comes up with a rigorous definition of intelligence.




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