artificial general intelligence

English

Etymology

Used as early as 1997, by Mark Gubrud[1] in a discussion of the implications of fully automated military production and operations, and popularized by AI researcher Ben Goertzel around 2002.[2]

Noun

artificial general intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural artificial general intelligences, abbreviation AGI)

  1. (artificial intelligence) Artificial intelligence which matches or exceeds the intelligence and capabilities of human beings.
    Synonyms: AGI (initialism), full artificial intelligence, general intelligent action, strong artificial intelligence, advanced artificial intelligence
    Hypernym: artificial intelligence
    • 2015, Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots, Oneworld:
      The real question, I think, is not whether the field as a whole is in any real danger of another AI winter but, rather, whether progress remains limited to narrow AI or ultimately expands to Artificial General Intelligence as well.
    • 2026 May 22, Demis Hassabis, 0:16, in I/O 2026 Keynote‎[2]:
      We now have agents that can plan and act on our behalf, and artificial general intelligence is just a few years away.
    • 2026 September 5, George Hammond, “OpenAI says new model has overtaken Anthropic”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
      Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, said the new model “represents a generational leap in capability” and that it could be defined as artificial general intelligence—roughly defined as a point at which AI tools surpass human capabilities across a range of cognitive tasks.

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References

  1. ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], 1 August 2023 (last accessed), archived from the original on 29 May 2011
  2. ^ http://goertzel.org/who-coined-the-term-agi/