> Coding and algorithmic advance does not require real world experimentation.
That's nothing close to AGI though. An AI of some kind may be able to design and test new algorithms because those algorithms live entirely in the digital world, but that skill isn't generalized to anything outside of the digital space.
Research is entirely theoretical until it can be tested in the real world. For an AGI to do that it doesn't just need a certain level of intelligence, it needs a model of the world and a way to test potential solutions to problems in the real world.
Claims that AGI will "solve" energy, cancer, global warming, etc all run into this problem. An AI may invent a long list of possible interventions but those interventions are only as good as the AI's model of the world we live in. Those interventions still need to be tested by us in the real world, the AI is really just guessing at what might work and has no idea what may be missing or wrong in its model of the physical world.
That's nothing close to AGI though. An AI of some kind may be able to design and test new algorithms because those algorithms live entirely in the digital world, but that skill isn't generalized to anything outside of the digital space.
Research is entirely theoretical until it can be tested in the real world. For an AGI to do that it doesn't just need a certain level of intelligence, it needs a model of the world and a way to test potential solutions to problems in the real world.
Claims that AGI will "solve" energy, cancer, global warming, etc all run into this problem. An AI may invent a long list of possible interventions but those interventions are only as good as the AI's model of the world we live in. Those interventions still need to be tested by us in the real world, the AI is really just guessing at what might work and has no idea what may be missing or wrong in its model of the physical world.