OpenAI researcher: AGI can't be precisely defined, definitions are low-variance approximations
clu_cheng · x · 2026-09-05
unixpickle argues that nobody can define AGI precisely because definitions are low-variance approximations of a much more complex decision boundary — i.e., any attempted definition compresses a far messier underlying concept, which is why competing AGI definitions never converge.
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