Emergence is Overrated: AGI as an Archipelago of Experts

ArXi:2603.07979v1 Announce Type: new Krakauer, Krakauer, and Mitchell distinguish between emergent capabilities and emergent intelligence, arguing that true intelligence requires efficient coarse-grained representations enabling diverse problem-solving through analogy and minimal modification. They contend that intelligence means doing " with less" through compression and generalization, contrasting this with "vast assemblages of diverse calculators" that merely accumulate specialized capabilities.