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Novel solutions at the edge of knowledge as AGI test
A convincing test of AGI would be giving the model a genuinely novel problem at the edge of human knowledge (e.g., a niche philosophy argument or math proof the tester invented and verified) and seeing it independently produce a solution it could not have seen in training — verifiable novelty being the moving signal of true generalization.
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Amanda AskellEvidence Quote
“if I just took something like that where I know a lot about an area and I came up with a novel issue or a novel solution to a problem, and I gave it to a model, and it came up with that solution, that would be a pretty moving moment for me”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:36 AM
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