What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
Loosely speaking, an artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical future AI that’s smart like a human. There isn't agreement on an exact definition:
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Wikipedia defines it as "AI that matches or surpasses human cognitive capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks."
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IBM defines it as "The science-fiction version of artificial intelligence, where artificial machine intelligence achieves human-level learning, perception and cognitive flexibility."
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Some define it as AI that can do most economically-valuable tasks (i.e., do most human jobs).
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Some define it as AI that reasons in a way that generalizes to a lot of different problems, including problems in domains the AI hasn't encountered before.
AGI is often contrasted with narrow AI, which can only perform one specific task or a few closely related tasks, such as playing board games or recommending products.
Nobody has built AGI yet1