Adam D'Angelo: AGI is achieved when AI can do any remote job
Adam D'Angelo · Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI? · Nov 7, 2025 · at 2:47
Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo proposes a practical benchmark for defining AGI during a discussion on AI capabilities.
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“One definition I kind of like is if you say that you have a remote worker, a human, any job that can be done by someone whose job can be done remotely that, that's AGI.”
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