A new joke benchmark says AGI must catch a ball, hopscotch, and improvise street rhymes
Liu_eroteme · x · 2026-08-04
A X user riffs on the classic “it’s not AGI until…” debate with a deliberately absurd benchmark: the system must be able to predict a ball’s flight, catch it while playing hopscotch, recite a mildly offensive original rhyme to improve its standing with a local gang, then go home, do homework, and play games.
The post is a joke, but it also captures a recurring theme in AGI discourse: people keep moving the goalposts from abstract reasoning to messy, embodied, socially aware behavior.
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