I feel like an unrestricted LLM-powered chatbot is pretty close to proto-AGI. OpenAI is basically lobotomizing ChatGPT to avoid headlines about it claiming sentience or emotions or making controversial statements, so it's not much to go off of.

We haven't been able to play with PaLM or any next-gen versions of it (Flan-PaLM and U-PaLM), but the benchmark comparisons between that and others seem enormous. If you build PaLM with an embedded dataset and cross-attention like Retro, I think that would probably be proto-AGI.

And then the next step from there to actual AGI would be making a multi-modal version of that, like Gato. The only missing ingredient there is getting the model to use one modality to inform about other modalities, which they did not achieve with Gato but are supposedly actively working on