Richard Ngo: we're much closer to AGI but learned nothing fundamentally new about intelligence
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-12
Richard Ngo offers a counterintuitive take: 'we're now much closer to building AGI, and we haven't learned any fundamentally new things about intelligence in the process' — implying frontier progress comes from scale and engineering rather than new insights into how intelligence works.
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