It was not that long ago that solving a maze was thought of as AI. Or a bot in a video game adapting to your play style was AI. Today, LLMs being trained to ou

It was not that long ago that solving a maze was thought of as AI. Or a bot in a video game adapting to your play style was AI. Today, LLMs being trained to output text, images and video equal to or better than any human is now what we consider to be AI. There is a semantic game we play to move the goalposts at every new tick of these technologies so that humans are still on top. Maybe the next big trick is to define AGI as having a system that was not trained on the entire corpus of human output available on the internet, and train it with nothing. Can an AI be “born” with no model like a baby and learn to speak, walk, function in society without being primed for success with a state of the art model? Could you drop this AI into any human society, regardless of culture, and have it seamlessly integrate? What precisely we consider “cognition” feels like a philosophical debate, one where we have no single true answer. And doesn’t really matter?