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You generally can't just have a quarterly check-in with humans either.

There's a significant fraction of humanity that would not clear the bar to meet current AGI definitions.

The distribution of human cognitive abilities is vast and current AI systems definitely exceed the capabilities of a surprising number of people.

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That's fair. I suppose it gets at the heart of the question of what the specific threshold for AGI should be. Is it matching or exceeding all cognitive capabilities of any given human, an average 100-IQ adult, a severely learning-disabled child, or something else entirely?

Maybe AGI is in the eye of the beholder, and a given person just has to decide by using their own experience of human intelligence as a benchmark. In other words, AGI is AGI whenever majority consensus decides it's a universal replacement for ordinary human intelligence.

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