> I've never seen someone state, as fact, that LLMs are AGI before now.
Then you probably haven't been paying attention.
https://deepmind.google/research/publications/66938/
> I've never seen someone state, as fact, that LLMs are AGI before now.
Many LLMs are AI that weren't designed / trained to solve a narrow problem scope. They can complete a wide range of tasks with varying levels of proficiency. That makes them artificial general intelligence or AGI.
You are confused because lots of people use "AGI" as a shorthand to talk about "human level" AGI that isn't limited to a narrow problem scope.
It's not wrong to use the term this way, but it is ambiguous and vague.
Even the term "human level" is poorly defined and if I wanted to use the term "Human level AGI" for any kind of discussion of what qualifies, I'd need to specify how I was defining that.