gleech on the AGI ambiguity thread: bad paper, great sentence
gleech · x · 2026-09-29
Reposting his own point about the fatal ambiguity of "AGI", gleech quips that the underlying paper isn't good but "it's a great sentence" — referring to the conflation of senses like Potentially General AI versus a drop-in remote worker for all knowledge work. Content is identical to the companion post; the substance lies in the quoted tweet.
Related event: Researcher: AGI Term Fatally Ambiguous Due to Pre-2024 Usage(2 posts)→
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