When NVIDIA's CEO says AGI has arrived, researchers still can't even define intelligence
annetgriffin · x · 2026-09-09
After NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared 'AGI has arrived' and OpenAI President Greg Brockman echoed 'we're moving into the AGI era,' Anne T. Griffin shares takeaways from the AGI-25 research conference on why definitions matter. Researchers there admitted there's no shared definition of intelligence itself, no universally accepted measure of overall intelligence, and existing IQ tests cover only limited aspects. The biggest obstacle to comparing human and machine intelligence is that we can't even agree what human intelligence is. She argues for identifying necessary-but-possibly-insufficient conditions for human-level machine intelligence and questions who benefits when companies declare AGI success.
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