AGI has been here since AlphaGO. Humans were just bad at understanding the nature of intelligence. What is happening now and will continue for a few years is rewriting the definition of AGI by the luddites. They will keep moving the goal posts.
The Luddites were a group of working class people whose livelihoods were destroyed by the invention of the Jacquard loom. They were eventually suppressed with government violence.
If your comparison is accurate, they really should be worried!
The G in AGI stands for General. Can AlphaGo do anything other than play Go really well? If not, it is by no means general.
But if Mowgli takes the glowing orb with a funny voice into the jungle with a Go board because the glowing orb tells him to…