Comment by ben_w

1. I didn't say AGI and neither did the person I replied to.

They said AI, I said AI.

But protein folding is also very much a thing humans did by playing games. Literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit

And Transformers are able to learn to use tools, so even mediocre ones can write and then invoke specialist AI.

3. To reach the quality level I specified, that of "You need a PhD to compete with this", it is only necessary to program the AI to be as capable of learning as a PhD student.

This is the standard AI researchers are aiming for, and what I was writing of.

Can they do that? Dunno, and I hope not. But I've bought some tech shares just in case they actually can, because I doubt I'll be able to keep up if that's the near future.