Gary Marcus

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Score 96

@littmath I actually disagree with your reconstruction. That would be like saying a chess computer is good if it can beat the average high school student. None of the historical definitions of AGI ever invoked median performance, esp not of untrained people.

That’s a major lowering of

4/16/2025, 9:01:56 PM

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Daniel Litt

@littmath

41d

I don't think o3 is AGI, but FWIW I think a model could be AGI but not superhuman at math research. As I understand it, AGI means "as good as the median human at almost all intellectual tasks," and I don't think surpassing median human mathematical performance is a very high bar.

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

41d

But but but Tyler Cowen promised me o3 was AGI?

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