John McCarthy (of the Stanford AI Lab, and one of the field's founders) used to joke that once something was achieved by AI, it wasn't considered AI anymore.That's more than a joke. It's an actual valid result and is a key part of the science of AI. We don't know what intelligence is, but we do know a bunch of features of intelligent systems like people, cats, crows and octopuses so we create something new and we see if we can replicate those intelligent systems.So far, each different system we created was not intelligent in fundamental explainable ways. Since it wasn't intelligent, we know that whatever technique we just tried is not, in itself, a recipe for i , What is AGI? Nobody Agrees, And It's Tearing Microsoft and OpenAI Apart. (arstechnica.com) 31 Posted by msmash on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @02:01PM from the philosophy-meets-contract-law dept., When is an AI system intelligent enough to be called artificial general intelligence (AGI)? According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics .