Toward a Definition of AGI
Gradually, the caregiver occasionally and intentionally fails to meet their needs: The baby cries in their crib at night, but the parent waits to see if they’ll self-soothe. The toddler wants attention, but the parent is on the phone. These small, manageable disappointments—what the psychologist D.W. Winnicott called "good-enough parenting"—teach... See more
I’m starting with a simple-sounding question: What is AGI?
The leading labs have all informally named building AGI as their explicit goal, yet there’s surprisingly little consensus on what it means. News articles do this hand-wavey trick where they spell out “artificial general intelligence,” then wedge a definition like “AI better than humans at... See more
The leading labs have all informally named building AGI as their explicit goal, yet there’s surprisingly little consensus on what it means. News articles do this hand-wavey trick where they spell out “artificial general intelligence,” then wedge a definition like “AI better than humans at... See more
From chatbot to agent-coworker
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have... See more
What could ambitious unhobbling over the coming years look like? The way I think about it, there are three key ingredients:
1. Solving the “onboarding problem”
GPT-4 has the raw smarts to do a decent chunk of many people’s jobs, but it’s sort of like a smart new hire that just showed up 5 minutes ago: it doesn’t have... See more