Which part of running a vending machine do you think would be hard for a SOTA model?

That vending machine comment is probably referring to https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1 - which is a fair point.

But I think it actually supports my thesis: we either haven't defined AGI well enough, or we've met it and are now waiting for something beyond it that doesn't have a name yet - something with the common sense and situational intuition a human would have in a scenario like that. The goalposts keep moving because the definition was never solid to begin with.