Reddit thread asks what is still missing before frontier models count as AGI
daishi55 · reddit · 2026-07-27
A Reddit thread asks what counts as AGI and argues that frontier models already look smarter than the average person at abstract reasoning, comparison, recombination, and explanation.
The real question in the post is not whether models are useful, but what capability is still missing before people will call them AGI.
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