The speaker argues conditionally that if AIs can perform major tasks once they have general intelligence, then AGI would be transformative because AIs would have memorized human knowledge and use it to make connections.

“So basically, if you do subscribe to this view that AIs could do all these things if only they had general intelligence,”

“you've got to be like,”

“well, once we actually do get the AGI,”

“it's actually going to be totally transformative because they will have all of human knowledge memorized and they can use that to make all these connections.”