Ethan Mollick: we may have 'jagged AGI,' but not expert-level AI across most tasks
emollick · x · 2026-09-07
Ethan Mollick says he'd accept we're in an era of 'jagged AGI' — AI better than humans in many areas, worse in others — but if AGI means beating human experts at most human tasks, we're not there yet. Still, he notes how astonishing it is that AI got this far this fast.
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