Artificial Imitation of Intelligence: Why We're Not 80% of the Way to AGI
Capt_Aeronaut · reddit · 2026-09-06
A Reddit essay by CaptAeronaut pushes back on the popular claim that we're 80% of the way to AGI. The core analogy: a car and a horse can both get you from point A to point B, but that doesn't make a horse 80% of a car. The author argues today's AI is very good at imitating the outputs of intelligence, which is not obviously the same as building intelligence itself — a car is a car, and a horse is a horse. The piece is an argumentative take against optimistic AGI timelines, offering analogy rather than new data.
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