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By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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Siegler / Spyglass : By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing   —  With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here!  Congrats, everyone!  —  It's a question as old as time.  Or at least as old as Terminator 2.  Is AGI here?

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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing   —  With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here!  Congrats, everyone!  —  It's a question as old as time.  Or at least as old as Terminator 2.  Is AGI here?

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By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term&apos;s status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)