A sufficiently capable AGI will be transformative by default, for better or worse, and an insufficiently capable, but nonetheless fully-general AI is probably a transformative AI in embryo, so the terms have been used synonymously. The fact that we feel the need to make this distinction with current AIs is worrisome.
Current large language models have become impressively general, but I think they are not as general as humans yet, but maybe that’s more a question of capability level than generality level and some of our current AIs are already AGIs as you imply. I’m not sure. (I haven’t talked to Bing’s new AI yet, only ChatGPT.)
I think you’re contrasting AGI with Transformative AI
A sufficiently capable AGI will be transformative by default, for better or worse, and an insufficiently capable, but nonetheless fully-general AI is probably a transformative AI in embryo, so the terms have been used synonymously. The fact that we feel the need to make this distinction with current AIs is worrisome.
Current large language models have become impressively general, but I think they are not as general as humans yet, but maybe that’s more a question of capability level than generality level and some of our current AIs are already AGIs as you imply. I’m not sure. (I haven’t talked to Bing’s new AI yet, only ChatGPT.)