There's AI, and Then There's AGI: What You Need to Know to Tell the Difference

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulates aspects of human intelligence in machines, emulating behaviors that require intelligence.
  • AI performs specific tasks like driving a car, planning a party, or writing code.
  • Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is closer to human-like intelligence and encompasses a greater range of skills than most existing AIs.
  • AGI is the Schrodinger’s cat of AI: It simultaneously is and is not human-like.
  • Tech titans like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg aim to build AGI, putting him in the same league as OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind.
  • AGI will have a profound impact on us but has a long way to go before it fully emulates the human brain or makes its own decisions.

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