Improving AGI Evaluation: A Data Science Perspective

John Hawkins
10/2/2025
cs.AIcs.CL

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Abstract

Evaluation of potential AGI systems and methods is difficult due to the breadth of the engineering goal. We have no methods for perfect evaluation of the end state, and instead measure performance on small tests designed to provide directional indication that we are approaching AGI. In this work we argue that AGI evaluation methods have been dominated by a design philosophy that uses our intuitions of what intelligence is to create synthetic tasks, that have performed poorly in the history of AI. Instead we argue for an alternative design philosophy focused on evaluating robust task execution that seeks to demonstrate AGI through competence. This perspective is developed from common practices in data science that are used to show that a system can be reliably deployed. We provide practical examples of what this would mean for AGI evaluation.

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@article{hawkins2025improving,
  title  = {Improving AGI Evaluation: A Data Science Perspective},
  author = {John Hawkins},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2510.01687},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01687v1}
}

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