> As long as there is a gap between AI and human learning, we do not have AGI.

Back in the 90's, Scientific American had an article on AI - I believe this was around the time Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess.

One AI researcher's quote stood out to me:

"It's silly to say airplanes don't fly because they don't flap their wings the way birds do."

He was saying this with regards to the Turing test, but I think the sentiment is equally valid here. Just because a human can do X and the LLM can't doesn't negate the LLM's "intelligence", any more than an LLM doing a task better than a human negates the human's intelligence.

> As long as there is a gap between AI and human learning, we do not have AGI.

Don't read the statement as a human dunk on LLMs, or even as philosophy.

The gap is important because of its special and devastating economic consequences. When the gap becomes truly zero, all human knowledge work is replaceable. From there, with robots, its a short step to all work is replaceable.

What's worse, the condition is sufficient but not even necessary. Just as planes can fly without flapping, the economy can be destroyed without full AGI.