Unless you believe in magic, the human brain proves that human level general intelligence is possible in our physical universe, running on a system based on the laws of said physical universe. Given that, there’s no particular reason to think that “what the brain does” OR a reasonably close approximation, can’t be done on another “system based on the laws of our physical universe.”
Magic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hacker News comments have it covered.
‘AGI’ generally means ‘machine intelligence as general as human intelligence’.
The claim here is ‘it’s impossible to have machine intelligence with zero specialisation’. Sure, but that’s not what people are talking about with AGI
LeCun has been saying this for years:
LeCun prefers the term “Advanced Machine Intelligence” (AMI) over “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI), pointing out that even human intelligence is highly specialized
LeCun proposed a shift in focus towards what he calls Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), moving away from the term Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
It’s just a semantic argument.
The very first comment: