ChatGPT thinks this Greenland crisis is fake, giving lie to Sequoia Capital’s claim that AGI is here, says Lewis Liu

“AGI is here, now.”

That’s Sequoia Capital this week, one of Silicon Valley’s most legendary venture firms and a major OpenAI investor, declaring we’ve crossed the threshold into artificial general intelligence.

Their post also proclaims, in big bold letters, that they are “Blissfully Unencumbered by the Details”. When Sequoia speaks, the tech world listens. This post has dominated conversations across the AI builder community for days.

As a builder, venture investor, and AI scientist myself, I find their proclamation both deeply useful and profoundly dangerous.

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Here’s what’s useful

Sequoia offers a functional definition of AGI: “the ability to figure things out. That’s it”. AI can now crawl through information, determine a path forward, and execute. The key shift, as they frame it, is AI moving from “talking” to “doing”. Harvey and Legora “function as associates,” Juicebox “functions as a recruiter,” OpenEvidence’s Deep Consult “functions as a specialist.” Those are their exact phrases, and I’m skeptical of the framing, but we’ll get to that.

They’re throwing down the gauntlet for builders, and this matters. AI systems can actually redline contracts........

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