We Crossed What, Exactly?
A Response to the New Religion of AGI
Marc Andreessen has announced that artificial general intelligence arrived three months ago.
One almost expects church bells.
The declaration carries all the familiar features of a millenarian prophecy. The date is conveniently recent. The evidence is conveniently subjective. The implications are conveniently enormous. And the bur...
The strongest version of this narrative acknowledges a genuine breakthrough: AI systems now demonstrate unprecedented breadth in mimicking human expertise across domains. This is a remarkable achievement worthy of admiration. However, the claim that this constitutes "artificial general intelligence" relies on a rhetorical sleight of hand—shifting the goalposts of what defines intelligence. The pattern here mirrors the "motte-and-bailey" tactic: when benchmarks like the Turing Test are met, they ...