Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to systems capable of matching or exceeding human cognitive abilities, understanding, learning, and applying knowledge across a wide range of tasks. Generative AI's growing business traction has intensified interest and hype around AGI, though AGI has not yet arrived. Tech leaders and researchers offer widely varying timelines for AGI, from imminent to decades or never. Some prominent figures have questioned the usefulness of the AGI label because people mean different things by it. Gartner characterizes AGI as systems that autonomously learn, adapt, create new ideas, and pursue predetermined or novel goals.
As artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, gains traction in the business world after years of promise, a new generation of AI is starting to emerge - at least in the hype cycle. It's not agentic AI, it's not robotic AI, or physical AI. It is artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Two years ago, fear of AGI run amok prompted 1,000 tech leaders and AI researchers to sign an open letter calling for a pause on new AI model rollouts.
AI company leaders such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have said AGI is imminent. Other AI experts are more conservative, with estimates ranging from "within the next five to ten years" to "decades" to "never." Confused? Join the club. So what is AGI? Interestingly, Altman himself has recently soured on the phrase, saying artificial general intelligence is "not a super useful term" because people use it to mean different things.
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