LLMs would have to expand beyond language and start to master perception and reasoning, and start to pursue the holy grail of AI, which is self-supervised learning, self-awareness, and self-improvement. (It’s unclear if consciousness is a requirement in order to reach these milestones.)

https://futurism.com/sam-altman-agi-achievable-current-hardware

https://futurism.com/google-deepmind-agi-5-years

Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here (Noema Oct 2023)

Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.

AGI Is Already Here — They Just Don’t Want You to Know (Medium)

Feb 13, 2025

https://medium.com/@starlingai/agi-is-already-here-they-just-dont-want-you-to-know-25e23806ae37