Pedro Domingos: Superhuman on Every Job Still Isn't AGI if Learning Lags
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-08
Pedro Domingos argues that even if AI reaches human level on every single job through massive-data training, it still isn't AGI — because it remains far worse than humans at the one thing that matters most: learning. Task competence and the ability to learn are fundamentally different, and the latter is his bar for AGI.
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