That’s their definition of AGI? What does that have to do with actual intelligence?
Of course it’s being thrown out the window now that money’s on the line… drives one to cynicism! No wonder Altman is a paranoid prepper.
Requiring outputs to generate profit is a well-established proxy for human value, even if it's imperfect, and letting the economy pick tasks makes it hard for OpenAI to cherry pick.
I don't know about you, but a reliable ability to generate high value sounds like the kind of intelligence I care about.
On the meta-level, I think disagreements like this about "actual intelligence" and "really conscious" do a good job of showing how out of distribution we are on our human wetware classifiers. The terms really are fuzzy and ill-suited for generating understanding of current AI model behavior, IMHO.
As you note, this has nothing to do with actual intelligence, but with the for-profit calculus.
The disturbing aspect of such a definition is that economically-valuable work/activity may be grossly unsustainable and directly detrimental.
Edit for clarity: “worthless” as in “no value add”, its worth is only capital investment and energy input.