I Think AGI Just Happened

I think we just saw the birth of AGI, and it's from the most unexpected place. At least for me.

I think it arrived in the form of a product from Anthropic called Claude Tag.

This doesn't mean I think Claude, more generally, is technically "AGI". It's hard to even know what that means. Everyone disagrees.

My definition of AGI, which is what I think most of us actually care about, is just:

[ An AI system that can replace an average knowledge worker. ]

The "G" in AGI stands for generality, and there's wide disagreement on how measure that. But one thing we know requires lots of human-level-or-above generality is the chaos of knowledge work. Even the most basic knowledge work role is full of dozens or hundreds of random mini-tasks in the course of a day or week.

So my thinking here is t…