GPT‑5 Pro is brilliant, but it’s still nowhere near real AGI, says one of the professors who coined the term

GPT‑5 Pro impresses with its complex, layered response to prompts. The crown jewel of the GPT-5 rollout this month even made OpenAI CEO Sam Altman nervous with some of its responses. But you shouldn't confuse brilliant algorithmic models with true independent thinking, according to Dr. Ben Goertzel, who helped popularize the term Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in the early 2000s.

Now the CEO of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance and TrueAGI Inc., and the founder of SingularityNET, Goertzel wrote an essay lauding GPT‑5 Pro as “a remarkable technical achievement” that he finds useful for formatting research papers, parsing mathematical frameworks, and improving his own prose. But, he's not mistaking the model's abilities for actual human-style brains.

"These models, impressive as they are, utterly lack the creative and inventive spark that characterises human intelligence at its best," Goertzel wrote. "More fundamentally, they literally 'don ...