Comment by workingonit3
11 hours ago
Ordinary people do these things all the time. There are new companies made every day, new books top the charts every week/month/year, same for music. People have decent conversations every day. Ordinary people sometimes do have to talk someone out of suicide.
Yes, average humans are not beating the stock market. But the average human is a bit better than you give credit to.
Please consider the context of the question. An artificial intelligence only needs to have the cognitive abilities of a random average human in order to be "AGI".
The average human has never published a bestselling book. A person who has published a bestselling book is an above-average writer. And, therefore, an artificial intelligence capable of writing a bestselling book would be above an average human at the task of writing books. Therefore, somewhere beyond an AGI.
Attempting to redefine AGI to "being better than most humans at most tasks" is moving the goalposts towards artificial superintelligence.
Are you mistaking "average" for the literal average number of people? I am referring to average as in ability. Most authors are pretty average people, sure, the above average ones write war and peace etc. But most books these days are not from these extraordinary people.