Ask HN: Is the race to AGI the new space race?

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No

Maybe you could say that getting useful output from AI in general is the next space race, but AGI, at least as it is commonly used, is a pretty arbitrary metric doesn't get us much. It would be like defining the space race as crossing Kármán line, which wasn't really a goal in and of itself.

At least the Karman line has an objective, measurable definition. Whatever "AGI" might mean depends critically on what general intelligence means.
Since the V-2 rocket passed the Kármán line during WWII, I wonder if dlcarrier is pointing out that the line was passed before there was any space race and before Kármán proposed that boundary?
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