I've yet to hear an agreed upon criteria to declare whether or not AGI has been discovered. Until it's at least understood what AGI is and how to recognize it then how could it possibly be achieved?
(It's also one that they are pretty far from. Even if LLMs displace knowledge/office work, there's still all the actual physical things that humans do which, while improving rapidly with VLMs and similar stuff, is still a large improvement in the AI and some breakthroughs in electronics and mechanical engineering away)
That sounds like a great definition of AGI if your goal is to sell AGI services. Otherwise it seems pretty bad.
> how could it possibly be achieved?
This doesn't matter, and doesn't follow the history of innovation, in the slightest. New things don't come from "this is how we will achieve this", otherwise they would be known things. Progress comes from "we think this is the right way to go, let's try to prove it is", try, then iterate with the result. That's the whole foundation of engineering and science.
Put the AI in a robot body and if you can interact with it the same way you would interact with a person (ie you can teach it to make your bed, to pull weeds in the garden, to drive your car, etc…) and it can take what you teach it and continually build on that knowledge, then the AI is likely an instance of AGI.
