Georgetown CSET Executive Director @hlntnr reveals why the term "AGI" is becoming useless just as we're getting closer to it: "AGI as a term is kind of a fuzzy cloud. When it was a fuzzy cloud that was far away, you could say oh AGI and gesture towards it, and that was a useful thing to say. But we're now inside the fuzzy cloud of different things you might mean by AGI. It's not really very helpful to say is this AGI or is it not. It all depends on how you define it." "It doesn't feel useful to talk about in the abstract is Astra AGI or not. People are trying to get at some tipping point. But people mean quite different tipping points." "Are you talking about AI that can tip you into fully automated AI R&D, recursive self-improvement, intelligence explosion? Or AI that is a drop-in remote worker and can wipe out large chunks of the workforce. That's a different tipping point." "An approach to jargon I keep coming back to is, if you can just say a short phrase instead of some jargon term, that's almost always better. If you can say super duper powerful AI, no really super powerful. Or if you mean AI that can kick off RSI, say that. The fact we have to have a whole discourse cycle about it shows this term is not very helpful." @CSETGeorgetown