Comment by rstuart4133

I'm pretty sure how AGI seems to be defined by your typical HN commenter (if it they've managed to define it at all) is very different to how the AI firms define AGI.

As far as I can tell, HN defines an AGI as something that can do all the things a human can do better than a human. Or to put it another way if there is something the AGI can't do better than a human expert, then it will be loudly pointed to as evidence we haven't developed a true AGI yet.

Meanwhile I'm pretty sure the AI firms are using a very simple definition of AGI to justify their stock price: an AGI is an AI that can create other AI's faster / more cheaply than their own engineers can. Once that barrier is broken you task the AGI with building a better version it itself. Rinse, lather and repeat a few times, and they dominate the market with the best AI's. Repeat many more times and the universe becomes paperclips.