Machine Dexterity Triggers AGI Intuition
deanwball · x · 2026-07-11
The author states that watching machines **operate GUIs quickly and precisely**, or seeing **robots play the piano**, gives them a strong intuition of AGI. They believe this reaction is mostly an emotional "feeling"—because machines are mastering skills the author highly valued in their childhood, it naturally triggers the association that "AGI is arriving."
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