Moving the Goalposts: AI Community Mocks the Ever-Changing Definition of AGI
15_Redstones · reddit · 2026-08-06
A meme circulating on Reddit pokes fun at the AI industry's shifting standards for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The image implies that whenever a new AI model demonstrates powerful capabilities approaching the previously established threshold for AGI, the industry alters the definition, moving the goalposts to prove the model still falls short.
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