The 'Andrew Gordon Wilson test for AGI': making better coffee than the professor
xtimv · x · 2026-10-21
A small AI-circle joke: replying to NYU professor and coffee gear enthusiast Andrew Gordon Wilson's tweet ("In the world of coffee equipment, you pay more each time you remove a step of automation"), someone quipped:
> "The Andrew Gordon Wilson test for AGI is when it can make coffee better than him."
Defining AGI by out-brewing a top researcher at his own geek hobby — classic community self-deprecation.
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