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We are trying to. Absent first principles of cognition (which are nowhere on the horizon), we are defining tasks such that if a machine can fulfill these tasks, we classify it as AGI.

This is exactly what Turing came up with as criterion for intelligence. But now that we have such machines, many tasks we thought could only be done by an AGI can also be done by not-AGI.

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Whatever is on that list of tasks though we will rationalize why it doesn't count once the computer can do the task.

"It is just doing next word prediction, duhh"

The whole line of thought is muddled thinking and not bothering with exact definitions.

Even the mental image of moving the goalpost is wrong because we haven't bothered to define the goalpost or even what game we are talking about.

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