Blaise Aguera y Arcas: mastering language means we already crossed the AGI threshold
blaiseaguera · x · 2026-09-24
Blaise Aguera y Arcas revisits his 2023 argument with Peter Norvig: today's discourse conflates generality with superhuman capability — a pocket calculator is superhuman at arithmetic yet narrow, while language models are general even when imperfect. Since competence at language inherently involves open-ended tasks, crossing the general intelligence threshold happened when models mastered language. He points to George Hotz's piece untangling these definitions and showing why viewing intelligence as a single mythic threshold misses how diverse minds actually work.
Related event: Google's Arcas: Language Mastery Means AGI Is Already Here(2 posts)→
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