What is AGI?

Discover the tech that offers unlimited potential, and takes intelligence to another level

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THE TERM ARTIFICIAL General Intelligence (AGI) was coined by a physicist called Mark Gubrud in an article about military technologies back in 1997. Since then, it has been defined in many different ways, but broadly speaking, it describes a generally intelligent machine possessing cognitive capabilities rivaling those of humans across a wide range of tasks.

In other words, AGI is super-smart and cleverer than the AI we're using today by quite some distance. So while you can get AI to perform specific tasks - often dubbed "narrow" or "weak" - such as playing chess, creating an image, aiding a healthcare diagnosis, or finding information online based on large volumes of training data, AGI is capable of thinking for itself.