{"id":570,"date":"2026-01-07T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/agi-is-here-and-i-feel-fine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:51:26","slug":"agi-is-here-and-i-feel-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/agi-is-here-and-i-feel-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"AGI is here (and I feel fine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The key word in Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Gen\u00aderal Intel\u00adli\u00adgence is Gen\u00aderal.\u2002That\u2019s the word that makes this AI unlike every other AI: because every other AI was trained for a par\u00adtic\u00adular purpose.\u2002Consider land\u00admark models across the decades: the Mark I&nbsp;Perceptron, LeNet, AlexNet, AlphaGo, AlphaFold\u2009\u2026\u2009these sys\u00adtems were all dif\u00adferent, but all alike in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Lan\u00adguage models were trained for a purpose, too\u2009\u2026\u2009but, sur\u00adprise: the mech\u00ada\u00adnism &amp; scale of that training did some\u00adthing new: opened a wormhole, through which a vast field of action &amp; response could be reached.\u2002Towering libraries of human writing, drawn together across time &amp; space, all the dumb rea\u00adsons for it\u2009\u2026\u2009that\u2019s rich fuel, if you can hold it all in your head.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinsloan.com\/winter-garden\/agi-is-here\/\">www.robinsloan.com\/winter-garden\/agi-is-here\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key word in Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Gen\u00aderal Intel\u00adli\u00adgence is Gen\u00aderal.\u2002That\u2019s the word that makes this AI unlike every other AI: because every other AI was trained for a par\u00adtic\u00adular purpose.\u2002Consider land\u00admark models across the decades: the Mark I&nbsp;Perceptron, LeNet, AlexNet, AlphaGo, AlphaFold\u2009\u2026\u2009these sys\u00adtems were all dif\u00adferent, but all alike in this way. Lan\u00adguage models were trained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,24,7],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-computing","tag-consciousness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}