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“AGI” Is Impossible

Either That or Defining It Is Entirely Arbitrary

Justin Smith-Ruiu
Mar 23, 2025
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ChatGPT, operating at its usual level of middling competence, just served up for me, when asked, a variant of the by-now familiar definition of Artificial General Intelligence: “AGI refers to an arti…

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