Understand AGI › The syllabus
Each module assumes only what the ones before it covered. You can read them out of order, but the order is the point.
Most AGI material is written for people who already have the vocabulary. This is written the other way round: each module assumes only what the previous ones established, and defines a term the first time it appears rather than the fourth.
There is no assessment and nothing to sign up for. The reading times are honest estimates for reading properly rather than skimming, which on this subject is the only kind of reading that helps.
If you only read one, read Start here. It is the module the other four assume.
| Module | Subject | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Start here | Understanding AGI What the term means, where it came from, and why four sensible people can disagree about whether we are close. |
4 min |
| Module 1 | The definitions, compared The published definitions side by side, and what each one would actually require before it was satisfied. |
6 min |
| Module 2 | How capability is measured What a benchmark tests, what it does not, and how to read a score without being misled by it. |
5 min |
| Module 3 | Who is building AGI The labs, their stated goals, their published research and the commercial pressures acting on all of it. |
5 min |
| Module 4 | Key papers explained The foundational and current research, in plain English, with the original linked. |
Ongoing |
| Reference | The AGI glossary Every term you will meet on this site, defined once, properly, and cross-referenced. |
6 min |
This is not a news site and it does not try to be. When something happens and somebody important says something about it, that is reporting, and it is a different job done by a different site - our sister publication AGI Made Clear, which does names, dates and sources and nothing else.
What you get here is the structure underneath the news: the definitions people are arguing from, the way capability is measured, who is building what and why, and the vocabulary to follow any of it without a translator.
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