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Steve Newman Profile picture
Steve Newman
@snewmanpv
Co-founder of Writely (aka Google Docs) and 7 other startups. Now at the Golden Gate Institute for AI, working to bring AI’s toughest questions into focus.
Aug 14, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you need a break from hourly news, here are some big-picture thoughts on AGI.

#1: I drafted this list a couple of weeks ago. The subsequent launch of GPT-5 didn’t lead me to make any changes. That says something about how uneventful GPT-5 is.

(More in 🧵) Image #2: Current AIs aren’t AGI. But I don’t know why.

I mean, I have thoughts. I talk about missing functions like “memory” and “continuous learning”, and possibly “judgement” and “insight”. But these are all debatable; for instance, ChatGPT has a form of memory. The honest answer is: I dunno what’s missing, but something is, because there are a lot of things AI still can’t do. Even if it’s getting harder and harder to articulate exactly what those things are.