What is AGI?

It’s the holy grail of AI – but as Steve Cassidy explains, businesses shouldn’t wait for artificial general intelligence

Is this just another label for the same old AI hype? Well, yes and no. If you ask a passerby in the street what AI means to them, their answer might in fact be a definition of AGI – short for artificial general intelligence. The term refers to an AI that’s so broad and versatile that it can mimic the intelligence and functions of a human. To be clear, though, a genuine AGI wouldn’t be just a dumb copycat – it would be a free-thinking entity in its own right. How does this differ from the various types of AI we have today? The idea of emulating organic intelligences is a fundamental step beyond the workings of ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Natural systems learn by gaining and losing connections in…

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