> I'd be curious to hear takes on what would make you think Astra is yet to be AGI, and what would still need to be achieved for this to effectively be AGI from this point forward.
To me AGI is all about the "G" general (we already had the AI part). General meaning universal, everything. It's not a function of knowledge or specific hardcoded tests, it's that you could give it a test it's never heard of before and never been trained on and it would ace it (it might need a lot of time).
Currently LLMs can't even really learn within a conversation, they can add a note to context and try to not drop it. Example things an AI cannot do yet (but maybe someday will):
- write a well-received book, write a best-seller
- come up with a new company idea, Run that company
- actually have a decent conversation, maybe someday talk somebody out of suicide effectively
- come up with its own ideas or theories that nobody else has presented
- understand the stock market well enough to trade better than an index fund
- be an expert Game Master in a TTRPG (making no mistakes, getting a read on the players' fantasies, calibrating difficulty in response to emotions)
- come up with a theory of what makes games fun, make a popular game
- be able to sort through research and come to conclusions on complex geopolitical/sociological topics (e.g. theorize on whether AGI will result in mass poverty or mass abundance and be able to argue persuasively)
- be able to articulate what it knows, what it doesn't know, and what information it would need to have to answer complex queries
- exhibit metacognition (thinking about its own thinking) and self-optimization
- wonder about things
- observe contradictions and ironies in the social-consciousness, do a standup routine that makes you rethink how you look at things