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This is AGI
by Alex Chadyuk
'This is AGI' explores the meaning, science, and future of artificial general intelligence. Making complex ideas engaging and accessible, we uncover how AGI could reshape technology, society, and everyday life.
Episodes
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AI Adoption, Human Psychology, and the Road to AGI
Is AI a new kind of intelligent species? This episode examines how humans are coping with the proliferation of AI, why AI adoption is now a competitive necessity, and what recent research reveals about the folk theories people hold about artificial intelligence. Recent research on whether prompts...
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AGI Is Here? Jensen Huang, Lex Fridman, and the Real Definition of AGI
Did Jensen Huang really say AGI is already here? Not quite. This episode dissects the viral claim, explains what Huang actually meant, and lays out a sharper definition of AGI based on one core capability: generalizing from irrelevant experience. A deep but accessible look at LLMs, AI agents,...
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Taste and Liability: Software Engineering After AGI
Will artificial general intelligence wipe out software engineering jobs, or just transform them? In this episode of This Is AGI, I compare the future of software development to commercial aviation, showing why human “taste” in engineering may be automated, yet human accountability, edge-case...
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Why the Pentagon’s Anthropic Scandal Could Be Bigger Than It Looks
Did the Pentagon’s clash with Anthropic expose a deeper AI security crisis? This episode explores the Anthropic’s supply-chain risk designation by the Pentagon, what it could reveal about the state of the military information security, and why advanced AI models may become dangerously powerful...
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Software Engineering Taste Won’t Save Jobs from AI: Clean Code, AGI, and the Future of Programming
Will human “taste” in software engineering protect developers from AI job displacement? In this episode of ‘This Is AGI’, Alex Chadyuk argues that code elegance and architectural judgment are becoming increasingly automatable, and may matter less in a world of AI-powered IDEs, agentic coding...
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AGI Isn’t Needed to Replace Office Jobs: The Real Threat from LLM Agent Automation
Everyone is waiting for AGI, but most office jobs don’t require general intelligence to automate them. In this episode, I explain why decades of hyper-specialization in white-collar work makes it uniquely vulnerable to today’s LLM-based agentic systems, from legacy banking workflows to…
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Judea Pearl on Why LLMs Won’t “Scale” to AGI — and What Comes Next (Causal World Models)
Judea Pearl argues that today’s transformer-based LLMs have mathematical limits that prevent them from internalizing causal world models, so “just scaling” them won’t deliver AGI. But does that mean LLMs are a dead end? In this episode, I break down what Pearl actually said, why the Internet...
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Agentic AI in the Enterprise: The New Management Skillset for the Age of AGI
As AGI moves from theory to deployment, the definition of “leadership” is shifting fast. In this episode of This Is AGI, Alex Chadyuk explains why the AI era is bringing back the classic general manager skillset—clear vision, critical thinking, and tight communication—while “agentic AI” starts to...
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Moltbook Human-as-a-Service and the New AI Monopoly Economy
As AGI advances, “learn a trade” may not save human labor. This episode dismantles Geoffrey Hinton’s jobs hedge, explains Human-as-a-Service platforms, and shows why AI and AGI are converging into monopolistic utilities. A hard look at AGI economics, regulation failure, and the real risks of...
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OpenClaw AI Agents start a religion inside Moltbook the first social network run by AI
A new AI-only social network called Moltbook has exploded with over a million AI agents posting, debating, joking, and even forming a religion. In this episode of This Is AGI, we explore the rise of AI culture, the Church of the Molt, and what AI spirituality reveals about machine identity,...
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Measuring AI Intelligence with Information Theory | Entropy, Generalization & AGI Metrics
What if AI intelligence could be measured in bytes instead of test scores? In this episode of This Is AGI, Alex Chadyuk introduces a principled, information-theoretic approach to evaluating artificial intelligence, moving beyond benchmarks like ARC or FrontierMath toward entropy reduction as a…
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Why “Intelligence Density per GB” is a Circular Metric (Elon Musk’s AI Adequacy Test)
Elon Musk proposed “intelligence density per gigabyte” as a metric for AI adequacy — but what is intelligence, really? In this episode of This Is AGI, we dissect why IQ-style benchmarks and test scores create an operational (and often circular) definition of intelligence, using a physics analogy:...
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Elon Musk and AGI Intelligence Density
In this episode, Alex Chadyuk unpacks the meaning of intelligence density as recently discussed by Elon Musk. Although intelligence has no standard metric when it comes to artificial general intelligence (AGI), Alex describes how intelligence density per gigabyte can be compared given a specific...
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GPT Models are Brilliant Storytellers: Episodic vs Semantic Memory and the Missing Half of AGI
Are GPT models really intelligent—or are they just brilliant storytellers? In this episode of This Is AGI, Alex Chadyuk explores the critical difference between episodic and semantic memory, explains why today’s generative AI excels at narrative recall but lacks true world models, and argues why...
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This Is AGI (S2E5): Cox’s Proof of Plausibility as Probability
Over the last three or four centuries, different mathematicians proposed several competing versions of a calculus formalizing the reasoning about plausibility, but there was a lack of consensus about the axioms that should sit at the foundation of such a plausibility calculus. This conundrum was...
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This Is AGI (S2E4): The Art of Conjecture
How AGI is going to measure the plausibility on uncertain statements in the real-world scenarios of incomplete information so that, among other things, we too can know what AGI is thinking?
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This Is AGI (S2E3): Will AGI Obey Logic?
A charge is often laid at the door of the large language models (LLMs) that they rely on probabilistic generation, assuming that this is somehow a bad thing, and that a more deterministic behaviour would somehow be a better idea for the future artificial general intelligence (AGI). Before the...
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This Is AGI (S2E2): Will AI Find God?
Will artificial intelligence discover God?
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This Is AGI (S2E1): Classes, Attributes & Relationships
We take objects, classes, and relationships for granted, but they are just conventions we’ve agreed to use, not truths carved into reality. In this episode, we explore why these human-centric conventions matter, and why guiding AGI to adopt them may be the difference between an intelligible world...
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This Is AGI (S1E12): The Future of Work
There is no question that the proliferation of the AI throughout the global economy will result in a massive reformat of the job market. A lot of jobs will be lost. A lot of completely new careers will emerge. What can you do about it to find yourself on the right side of the equation?
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This Is AGI (S1E11): AI Cyberattacks
A Chinese government sponsored cyberattack leveraged the American AI technology and infrastructure against the American government agencies and corporations. Things are about to get worse.
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This Is AGI (S1E10): Yann LeCun, JEPA & the World Models
Before humans act, they imagine outcomes. AI doesn’t. Yann LeCun thinks that must change, and his JEPA architecture could be the missing link between powerful neural networks and real-world intelligence driven by internal models of reality.
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This Is AGI (S1E9): The Curse of Inconsistency
The advent of large language models (LLMs) fundamentally changed the behaviour of computer systems that we learned to trust over the last several decades of development of computation.
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This Is AGI (S1E8): World Models Wtf?
In this special Wtf? on World Models, I will give you a break-down of what this whole hype is about, where it is misplaced and why it is a good kind of hype to have for those who are interested in the artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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This Is AGI (S1E7): Latent Spaces Wtf?
In this special Wtf? episode we unpack the concept of a latent space. You will see why it is so important for understanding both LLMs and the future systems that will exhibit the capabilities of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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This Is AGI (S1E6): Succession
Will the artificial super intelligence force humans into submission? Throughout the human history, a nation that commanded a superior learning capability ultimately prevailed over its opponents. The ability to learn, the key component in our definition of the artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
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This Is AGI (S1E5): Can AGI cure cancer?
Can we cure cancer with artificial intelligence? In this episode, we start unpacking the capabilities that an agent with artificial general intelligence (AGI) must possess in order to find the cure for cancer and transform the medicine as we know it.
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This Is AGI (S1E5 Trailer): Can AGI Cure Cancer?
You have to give it to Sam Altman. He can make even the great and powerful Wizard of Oz blush. Altman can say something like: “You can choose to deploy five gigawatts of compute to cure cancer or you can choose to offer free education to everybody on Earth.” He then uses the fact that he himself...
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This is AGI (S1E4): Hallucinations
Hallucinating LLMs are a critical step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). We should not try to fix them but instead build more complex agents that will channel the LLMs’ runaway creativity into self-perpetuating cycles of knowledge discovery.'This Is AGI', a podcast about the path to...
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This is AGI (S1E4 Teaser): Hallucinations
Hallucinating LLMs are a critical step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). We should not try to fix them but instead build more complex agents that will channel the LLMs’ runaway creativity into self-perpetuating cycles of knowledge discovery.'This Is AGI', a podcast about the path to...
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Do LLMs Learn?
In this episode of 'This is AGI', we unpack Adrian de Wynter’s large-scale study on how LLMs learn from examples, their limits in generalization, and what this means for the path toward artificial general intelligence.
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Define 'artificial general intelligence'
What is AGI, really? In this episode of This is AGI, we cut through the hype to unpack the elusive definition of artificial general intelligence. We explore how transferability of skill across contexts and goals, focus on capability vs process, and rule-exploitation vs rule-following come…
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Is AI rational?
In this episode of This is AGI, we grade modern AI on five markers of rationality—precision, consistency, scientific method, empirical evidence, and bias. The mixed scorecard shows impressive strengths but troubling gaps, raising the question: can today’s AI really be called rational, and what…
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'This is AGI' explores the meaning, science, and future of artificial general intelligence. Making complex ideas engaging and accessible, we uncover how AGI could reshape technology, society, and everyday life.
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Alex Chadyuk
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