I’m with you on the energy and limitations, and even on the moving of goalposts.

I’d like to add that I think limit definition of AGI has jumped the shark though and is already at ASI, since we expect our machine to exhibit professional level acumen across such a wide range of knowledge that it would be similar to the 0.01 percent top career scholars and engineers, or even above any known human capacity just due to breadth of knowledge. And we also expect it to provide that level of focused interaction to a small city of people all at the same time / provide that knowledge 10,000 times faster than any human can.

I think definitionally that is ASÍ.

But I also think AGI that “we are still chasing” focus-groups a lot better than ASI which is legitimately scary as shit to the average Joe, and which seasoned engineers recognize as a significant threat if controlled by people with misaligned intentions.

PR needs us to be “approaching AGI”, not “closing in on ASI”, or we would be pinned down with prohibitive regulatory straitjackets in no time.

As much regulatory measures as possible seems good. This things are not toys.