Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Artificial general intelligence is a hypothetical AI system that can do most or all of the intellectual work humans can, rather than one narrow task. There is no agreed definition. OpenAI's charter defines it as highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work; Hassabis describes a system with all the cognitive capabilities humans have; LeCun prefers "human-level AI" because he argues human intelligence is itself specialized.
Why it comes up
OpenAI and Google DeepMind name AGI as their goal, and people here disagree on whether it is years away (Altman, Amodei, Hassabis), decades away (Ng), or, as Gebru argues, too ill-defined to test for safety.
Sam Altman
Demis Hassabis
Yann LeCun
Andrew Ng
Timnit Gebru
Gary Marcus
Emily M. Bender