Well-known AI researchers Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Peter Norvig argue in NOEMA that Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here, mainly because state-of-the-art GPT systems already behave in ways that appear to go beyond their training and show signs of genuinely learning new tasks.

But Gary Marcus responds that Reports of the birth of AGI are greatly exaggerated because, despite the recent progress, machines still fail at tasks that wouldn’t trouble a five-year-old, including five-digit multiplication.