AGI remains limited by data and lacks human agency for decisions.
AGI means artificial general intelligence, models that learn and develop capabilities by themselves, becoming vastly more intelligent than humans. But I disagree with this focus. AGI still has the data problem and only one type of prediction modeling, while humans have emotional prediction and other ways of understanding. Crucially, we humans have agency. We decide what data to clean, what to feed models, when to correct them. Models can’t make those decisions themselves. I’m not against smarter models, but why not focus them on expert tasks like predicting climate change? I’m focused on using data and machine learning to improve things, not worried about some ominous AGI taking over.
— A reality check on AI · The Edge