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Beyond human intelligence: Claude 3.0 and the quest for AGI

Claude is another step towards matching or exceeding human-level intelligence, representing progress towards artificial general intelligence.

There are three versions of Claude 3, ranging from the entry-level “Haiku” to the near expert level “Sonnet” and the flagship “Opus.” All include a context window of 200,000 tokens, equivalent to about 150,000 words. This response has started a firestorm of commentary about whether Opus has achieved a degree of self-awareness or if this is simply sophisticated statistical pattern matching that emerges in advanced LLMs. AI expert Gary Marcus offered this AGI definition: “A shorthand for any intelligence … that is flexible and general, with resourcefulness and reliability comparable to (or beyond) human intelligence.” If nothing else, the hallucinations that still plague today’s LLM systems would not qualify as being dependable.

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