AI: Can Machine be Intelligent? the AGI? (2025)
By Xah Lee. Date: 2025-10-17 .
2025-10-16
Can AI Become Intelligent? the AGI?
from pure comp sci view, we dont know if artificial general intelligence aka agi will happen, or even what intelligence means or “general intelligence” means.
there's no agreement from top mathematicians or other scientists.
The def shifts in past 50 years, whenever ai achieved something, e.g. chess, translation, go, write poetry, chat aka turning test.
today, ai can write poem or chat, but we can tell after a while, its empty, soulless, not sentient, not a man. cannot think for itself. cannot even reason or count.
on the social aspect, that sam altman, is one of the most evil, dangerous, skum of humanity.
Can AI Machine Become Intelligent? the “general intelligence”, the AGI?
We thought, if ai can play chess, that would mean it has intelligence.
But in 1997, deep blue beat human champion.
The machine seems dumb, it can only do chess.
We thought, if machine can translate human language, it must have understanding.
Google translate did that since about 2015, but it has no brain, fails at poetry translation. It no understand.
We then thought, the board game go is the final challange, because the game cannot be brute forced by computation, but needs pattern recognition.
But AlphaGo beats human champion in 2017.
Still, it no understand emotion, cannot talk.
We thought, if writing poem would be the final challange, because poetry is the product of human emotion.
In 2023, chatgpt did that.
It can write poems, on the fly, hundreds of them per second, some pretty good.
And by 2025, AI can chat to human, in natural human voice, most people cannot tell it is machine.
But if you chat with AI for a while, you know that, it is empty, don't actually understand things, cant even count.
Currently, the grifters and ai corps are shilling AGI.
We are unable to define intelligence,
we are unable to define soul,
but now we created a new jargon “general intelligence” masked as AGI.
They spread AGI is near (aka singularity) because it helps their companies make money.
The reality is, we dunno what is intelligence, soul.
We dunno , if AI can be as smart as human.
It can be smarter than human in many specific tasks, such as chess or do math, or verbal debate, right now.
But we don't know what is real meaning of understanding, intelligence, or soul.
Nobody knows.
The world's top mathematicians and scientists have no consesus, each pushes their view.
Remember this. And the field is changing fast, every month.
If when AI becomes sentient, what will happen?
Will it take over humans as in scifi?
Well, that depends what exactly sentience means.
We'll see.