The Myth - ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (AGI)
Did you hear? Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is “just around the corner.” But the truth? It’s probably not coming this decade and maybe not for a long time.
Today’s AI works by following rules. Complex rules, sure. Nested rules, optimized rules, maybe even neural networks built on millions of data points but they’re still just rules. They follow patterns. They predict based on what they’ve seen. It’s impressive, but it’s not the same as thinking.
We like to think we’re building “intelligent” machines, but what we’re really doing is refining how well machines can mimic parts of human thinking mostly the rational, step-by-step stuff. Think of it like solving a math problem or organizing a giant spreadsheet. That’s something machines are already great at.
But real intelligence? That’s something else. It’s not just logic or speed, It is intuition.
Humans don’t just follow rules. We guess. We imagine. We sense things before we can explain them. That gut feeling you get when something’s not right, or the sudden feeling that clicks everything into place that’s not something you can program in a clean, linear way.
I like to think of it this way ; Machines have Intellect or Integuity. Humans have intuition.
Intellect can be built line by line, algorithm by algorithm. But intuition? That’s lived. It grows with experience. It’s messy, it adapts, and it doesn’t always follow logic. But that’s exactly what makes it so powerful.
And here’s the catch current AI can’t replicate that. Not yet. Maybe not ever.
So when people say AGI is just a few years away, I pause. Because until a machine can feel context, make creative leaps, or understand something the way a person does AGI isn’t just hard. It’s a myth.
Trust me when I hear leaders say “We are just 10 years away from reaching AGI”, I know for a fact that even after ten years their statement would remain same. The wrong doing is people should rather focus on innovation as this bubble is going to burst soon, what would remain is Human Novice and Innovation.
Talking product sense with Ridhi
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Now you want AGI should be like God ability
Thank you for making my point clearer, it can't! So the AI Overlords should stop advocating such baseless claims
The amount of time I need to give context to get something useful done by an AI, say creating dynamic spreadsheets out of data that is not always presented in a set pattern is mind numbing. And on top of that it'll not get it right at the first time.
Asking it to derive insights from a data without historical context is just shooting yourself in the leg. And giving all that context is not easy because the content itself is not in the same pattern. Every quarter the nature of data is different, prediction are randomly underdelivered or over delivered with no proper explanations.
So where is AI replacing humans. I'm afraid it will replace humans not because of its capabilities but because of greed.