I do tend to agree, and I have felt this way for a while. I do also think it is important to find the right ways to frame things, and framing existing tech as AGI is I think preferable. There is too much baggage associated with the word AI from its 80 years of history. And when we use the term AGI, we can kind of wipe the slate clean and be more clear about the differential between “this AI” and all the AI that had come before.
Regardless of the fact it’s still limited in various ways; I do think the technical criticisms of calling it AGI (e.g. Hendrycks et al from last year) are also helpful and critical. But, on the other hand, the non-technical criticisms of calling it AGI seem like they are (1) mainly coming from the POV of “it’s all a hoax,” which is extremely counter productive and unhelpful. Or, (2) mainly coming from the perspective of being really critical about how AI is being sold and used; which is indeed a profound criticism, but you can’t make the problem go away by calling it something it’s not. It’s like trying to use an ad hominem attack against the concept.
I do tend to agree, and I have felt this way for a while. I do also think it is important to find the right ways to frame things, and framing existing tech as AGI is I think preferable. There is too much baggage associated with the word AI from its 80 years of history. And when we use the term AGI, we can kind of wipe the slate clean and be more clear about the differential between “this AI” and all the AI that had come before.
Regardless of the fact it’s still limited in various ways; I do think the technical criticisms of calling it AGI (e.g. Hendrycks et al from last year) are also helpful and critical. But, on the other hand, the non-technical criticisms of calling it AGI seem like they are (1) mainly coming from the POV of “it’s all a hoax,” which is extremely counter productive and unhelpful. Or, (2) mainly coming from the perspective of being really critical about how AI is being sold and used; which is indeed a profound criticism, but you can’t make the problem go away by calling it something it’s not. It’s like trying to use an ad hominem attack against the concept.