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The Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence

The Debate Over AGI

Based on the transcript, the discussion begins with the question of whether artificial intelligence has reached the standards of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The guest, David Shapiro, argues that from any reasonable perspective, current AI systems like large language models can be considered AGI. He points out that these models have a general flexibility and capability that meets the functional definition of general intelligence, even if they have some limitations.