Tell HN: AGI Is Here
Whether by your strict definition or not AGI is here is immaterial. For 90%+ of humanity AGI is here today, they act like it does and they use it as if it is. It's not going to go away, like every other technology bad version 1.0 will give way to much improved version 2.0 and so on, and in five years time you won't recognize the landscape.Stop waiting for 'your' AGI.
- ▪Whether by your strict definition or not AGI is here is immaterial.
- ▪For 90%+ of humanity AGI is here today, they act like it does and they use it as if it is.
- ▪It's not going to go away, like every other technology bad version 1.0 will give way to much improved version 2.0 and so on, and in five years time you won't recognize the landscape.Stop waiting for 'your' AGI.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844960 |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:11:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T14:55:32.254Z |
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Whether by your strict definition or not AGI is here is immaterial. For 90%+ of humanity AGI is here today, they act like it does and they use it as if it is. Geoffrey Hinton in a recent interview said that according to him it is still a year or so out, but that seems to ignore the fact that he's one of the smartest people on the planet, so he is one of the last to be 'caught up with'.If you have the knowledge of a very significant fraction of humanity at your fingertips, reasonably strong reasoning abilities, if you can speedread at 1500 words / minute without dropping a beat and if you can write at 200+ characters per second you can get more done in an hour than a normal person can get done in a day.So I would suggest we start thinking about how to do all those things that we should…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.