AGI
Artificial General Intelligence, or strong AI. A machine that could match a person across the board rather than in one domain: pick up an unfamiliar field, carry what it learned into a different one, handle a problem nobody prepared it for. It has not been built. The human brain is complex enough that no one can say with confidence how far off it is, or whether the current approach gets there at all.
The term matters commercially for one reason. It gets attached to products that are plainly narrow, and the gap between the two is where most AI disappointment comes from.
AI doesn’t think. AI computes.
…that does one task and often does it better than we do, through general AI (AGI), a machine that could match humans across the board, up to superintelligence (ASI), self-improving and beyond anything we can picture.2 The part worth remembering:…