This is a wonderful essay. I've always found the term AGI confusing. For example, how general does it need to be to qualify and what specific cognitive capabil

This is a wonderful essay. I've always found the term AGI confusing. For example, how general does it need to be to qualify and what specific cognitive capabilities does it need to exhibit? My gut feeling has always been that it's not a helpful guiding star for AI research. It seems better to be led by the problems we want to solve as that makes it easier to define success and generality is still beneficial since you can more efficiently solve more problems with general solutions. What this essay solidified for me is that what we call intelligence is really just a set of tools that allow us (humans) to solve a certain collection of problems. We mistakenly believe all those tools are cognitive, but really some are just evolved responses and instincts.