Evidence

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"Shannon considered artificial intelligence too flashy a name, and he and McCarthy agreed to call their early collection Automata Studies."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Liars, Doomers, & Muggles

Source title The Lighthill Debate on AI - Full Transcript

Source authors John McCarthy (speaker)

Source year 1973

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Developers complain that AI-generated code is almost right but not quite."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Liars, Doomers, & Muggles

Source title AI | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Source authors Stack Overflow

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"The trope that solved AI problems stop being called intelligence has a documented history."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Liars, Doomers, & Muggles

Source title Quote Origin: As Soon As It Works, No One Calls It AI Anymore

Source authors Quote Investigator

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

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"Chess was once a major benchmark of machine intelligence, before Deep Blue defeated Kasparov."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Liars, Doomers, & Muggles

Source title Deep Blue

Source authors IBM

Source year 1997

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Researchers still disagree about how to define and measure general intelligence."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Liars, Doomers, & Muggles

Source title Position: Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

Source authors Meredith Ringel Morris; Jascha Sohl-Dickstein; Noah Fiedel; Tris Warkentin; Allan Dafoe; Aleksandra Faust; Clement Farabet; Shane Legg

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

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"AI became a feud with a Stargate-sized investment ambition."

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Source title Announcing The Stargate Project

Source authors SoftBank Group Corp. and OpenAI

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

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"ChatGPT’s Sky voice prompted Scarlett Johansson comparisons, but OpenAI says the voice came from a different actress."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Can You Feel the AGI Now?

Source title How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen

Source authors OpenAI

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Web Page

"In Moscow in 2022, a chess-playing robot caught and broke a seven-year-old boy’s finger during a match."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Can You Feel the AGI Now?

Source title Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent

Source authors Jon Henley

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Web Page

"AlphaGo’s Move 37 against Lee Sedol in 2016 was an unexpected and creative move that helped win the game."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Can You Feel the AGI Now?

Source title What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo

Source authors Demis Hassabis

Source year 2016

Confidence high

Importance mid

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"After the AI unit-distance breakthrough, Misra acknowledged an original mathematical result while maintaining a distinction between recombining existing tools and inventing new concepts."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 14: AGI & THE SYNTHESIZER Can You Feel the AGI Now?

Source title The Hardest Test (So Far)

Source authors Vishal Misra

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid