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  "title": "Can GPT-6 Astra Pass The Demis Hassabis Benchmark For AGI?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1w5zhoo/can_gpt6_astra_pass_the_demis_hassabis_benchmark/",
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  "upload_date": "20260903",
  "published_at": "2026-09-03T06:33:41+00:00",
  "transcript": "Demis Hassabis has always said that a great way to determine whether we have AGI would be to **train a foundation model with a knowledge cutoff around 1911 and see whether it could independently develop general relativity**, as Einstein did in 1915.\n\nThis type of test would be a fantastic way to separate knowledge retrieval and synthesis from genuine intelligence and creativity.\n\nSome people say that Demis is setting the bar too high because this would be more like a benchmark for ASI rather than AGI. \n\nBut I think the test is fair, given that an AI would have several enormous advantages Einstein never had: perfect photographic access to the scientific literature available at the time, vastly greater computational speed, the ability to run continuously, and potentially thousands of parallel attempts. \n\nAmidst all the uncertainty about whether we have reached AGI or not, That would be extraordinarily compelling evidence of genuine AGI if this version of Astra were to pass this benchmark.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[129 upvotes] I’ve always thought this test was hypothetical \n\nThe idea that you’d be able to reliably remove  100% of post-1911 training data seems crazy to me.\n\nModern models have a cut of date because you can’t collect future data, not because everything has a date and they just cleanly cut it.\n\n[38 upvotes] To create the conditions necessary for this test may involve help from ASI.\n\n[32 upvotes] Fuck that just reconcile gravity and quantum field theory.",
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