Gary Marcus

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4/16/2025, 9:17:27 PM
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Daniel Litt
@littmath
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@AvpElk @GaryMarcus Right, it's kind of odd to give a definition of AGI that humans don't meet!
AVP
@AvpElk
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38d
@GaryMarcus @littmath My definition of AGI has never required more than median human performance.

Probably less than that, really. Pretty much *all* humans have general intelligence.
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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@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
Daniel Litt
@littmath
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38d
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
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But but but Tyler Cowen promised me o3 was AGI?

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