Watch the goal post shift unfold in real time: AGI used to be doing anything a person, including an expert, could do, and by the end of the …

Watch the goal post shift unfold in real time: AGI used to be doing anything a person, including an expert, could do, and by the end of the interview it’s not. I call this the AI bait and switch. As I wrote last year: “AI hype has become a giant game of bait and switch. the bait: we are going to make an AI that can solve any problem a expert human could solve. it’s gonna transform the whole world. the switch: what we have actually made is fun and kind of amazing in its own way but rarely reliable and often makes mistakes – but ordinary people makes mistakes, too. So … AGI solved!” "We already have artificial general intelligence," says Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. "We don't need AI to get smarter, it is just lacking context" https://bloom.bg/4o5SH9w

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-04