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  "title": "May We Take A Moment?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1w5tu57/may_we_take_a_moment/",
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  "published_at": "2026-09-03T01:44:00+00:00",
  "transcript": "Prior to ChatGPT, the turing test was typically considered to be the defining moment; the event that marked when we could no longer doubt machine awareness anymore than our own.  Does anyone here even remember when models started passing it? What model was it?  I feel like crossing this threshold was a blip in time and the immediate consensus was, \"that's actually a flawed and easily gamed test\".  I'm not debating this idea, but it doesn't change the fact that we, as a community, as a society, have been quick to move the goal posts as we've become desensitized to the current state of the art.  \n\nI'd like to remind everyone that GPT-3, not ChatGPT/3.5, was referred to by the community as proto-AGI.  If you were to have shown someone in 2016 a current frontier model, they would have likely considered it AGI.  As someone that's been obsessed with AI since I was a child, I remember the moment I read GPT-3 output a convincing and coherent 4chan copypasta (cringe I know, but that was the moment) and realized we had entered a new era.\n\nI constantly see posts in the vein of \"it's not AGI until I see x\" or \"maybe by 2040, likely later\".  We're watching incremental improvements on benchmarks and half of us are scoffing every step of the way.  I'm not a twitter hype train personality, but I can't help but shake the feeling, moreso the last few weeks, that we're climbing on the event horizon and many of us will be clinging to the graph and rationalizing away its existence.\n\nI'm currently fullfilling my childhood daydreams and far fetched ideas by writing a few paragraphs into a terminal and pressing enter.  I doubt there are many, if any, frontier researchers that don't at least consult a frontier model as a tool.  Many high end developers I know are now telling me of all the cool projects, features, ideas, etc that they've made a reality rather than complaining about tracing bugs.\n\nI suppose this is something I just needed to get out as someone who lurks this sub every day.  I feel like we need to appreciate the moment we're witnessing and the shift that we're in.  Sometimes it's hard to see it from one day to the next, but I'd like to have real discussions about it rather than alternate between comments that are \"WOOO AGI NOW ACCELERATE\" and \"AGI will never exist, stochastic parrot\" etc.  \n\nI personally was always in the camp that biological realism, such as Spiking Neural Networks, would have been required, or at least the best way, to achieve real intelligence.  I still believe in the benefit, but I'm starting to change my mind a bit.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[100 upvotes] The Turing Test bit really gets me too. I vividly remember how important and uncontroversial that test was considered prior to \\~GPT 3.5 as being the standard for AGI, or even consciousness. I recently rewatched “Ex Machina” (2014), and it very much centers around the Turing Test and treats its passing as an indicator of consciousness.\n\nAnd seemingly without fanfare whatsoever, the very earliest LLMs started passing that test, and people just stopped talking about the Turing Test completely. Immediate, and silent collective shifting of goalposts.\n\n[82 upvotes] I think 90% of people saying \"we are far from AGI\" confuse AGI and ASI.  \nFor them you need rapid and extreme recursive self-improvements before they call it AGI.  \nBut that is essentially ASI at this point.  \nIt originally meant \"human level intelligence\".  \nIf you put your uncle (or any human) in a chatbot, most users would say \"why did the AI get so dumb\".\n\n[32 upvotes] I always appreciate the current AI progress. It's literally a miracle. I use it every day for work thru various agentic frameworks like Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, and recently tried Grok Build. I'm well aware of its limitations.\n\nBut we have come a long way. This is actually really insane. I don't think I would even believe this if someone had told me that this could happen 10 years ago. I still remember the days when AI had robotic, unnatural voice and couldn't distinguish a school bus from a tree.\n\nI know people hate Sam Altman but he's right on one thing that iterative releases of models really change the psychological shock and societies are much more prepared this way. We frigging solved some 100 year old math problems, designed drugs and more. Look at everyone around you. No one cares.\n\nThis decade will be amazing technological wise and boring in transition wise. No one will be surprised when we build a  Dyson sphere in 2 decades and be immortal. People will still be so lame and nitpick some shit to complain. \"Look at that AI slop design. No soul on that dyson sphere.\" \"Human designers need to be more vocal. Aliens would think that we are not artistic.\" \"This AI so lame. I a",
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