Day 2

What is AGI? Why do we have to care about it? Is it all a hype or is there something of substance here.

Its very funny to see the overton window shift since 2020 when only some nerds at lesswrong and EA were talking about it and it was such a taboo. But now everything seems to be normalized even in academia.

The best working definition that I can work with, is the one by Shane Legg and Hutter -

"intelligence measures an agent's ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments"

you can find a few more over at their article

I liked this version for its balance of simplicity and derivability.

Its simple because it does not use other complicated words or concepts, even a teenager can understand. Its derivable in the sense that many other fascet of intelligence can be derived from it. This definition focuses on goals and the "ability"