The Realization of AGI

AGI is often perceived as a model capable of passing the Turing test by interacting with users and performing complex tasks like coding and drawing. However, despite the advancements, the anticipated job loss and societal collapse have not occurred, suggesting a slower adoption of AI technologies than expected. The podcast suggests that the bottleneck in achieving AGI lies in the current stage of pre-training and requiring reliable reasoning capabilities. Recent developments in reasoning and test-time compute may pave the way for agents that can act autonomously on behalf of users, which has always been a goal but now appears more achievable.