Researchers slam AGI goalpost-moving: 'we only care what AI can't do this minute'
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-08
RexDouglass criticizes "historical revisionism" in AGI debates: different groups have pitched different problems with different marketing over time, and a new meme is "we never cared about the final solution, only what AI can't do this minute." He argues the immense engineering and autoformalization behind cracking problems humans couldn't must contain insights.
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