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A recurring cycle occurs in which people initially call new AI models AGI after being impressed, but after about a month of use the models begin to feel unintelligent.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“People think where a new model comes out and people are blown away and they're like,”
“this is it, this is AGI,”
“but then they use it a bit and then it starts to feel dumb after a month or so.”Play from 2:14Report a misattribution
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