Have you ever watched a sci-fi movie where you see the AI robots can feel emotions, react like humans, and even think like a real human? well that’s the dream of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), it’s also called strong AI or human-level AI. It’s the idea of making machines that can think and solve many complex problems, just like people do.
This isn’t like normal AI that prepares for one thing, like beating a human in chess or recognizing human faces – that’s a Narrow AI (weak AI), which we already have and we use in everyday life, AGI is a HUGE jump in AI technology.
Defining Artificial General Intelligence
In simple words, AGI is a hypothetical type of intelligent agent that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.
It’s defined by two critical characteristics:
The goal is not just to copy what people do, but also to match human thinking, learning things and adapt.
Final Thoughts
Artificial General Intelligence is something for the future, not something we have now. While current AI systems like ChatGPT are impressive, they are still fundamentally Narrow AI. They are good at language tasks but they don’t have common sense, they can’t set their own goal, and don’t even have the ability to effortlessly transfer knowledge between one very different task in another task.
The path to AGI is about mixing big scientific goals with strong ethics. It’s not just about how soon we can build it, but how we can ensure that the AGI is the ultimate creation of humans and also how it benefits humans, not a threat. Learn more about Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
