What is AGI?

Artificial general intelligence: AI that can do everything a human can. What the term means, why experts disagree, and why your organisation doesn’t need to wait for the answer.

AGI stands for artificial general intelligence: a hypothetical AI that can handle pretty much any intellectual task a human can, instead of being good at specific things. Today’s AI isn’t AGI, no matter how impressive it is. It writes, calculates, and reasons, but only within limits.

Whether and when AGI will arrive is one of the most hotly debated questions in tech. Some leading researchers say it could happen in just a few years, others say decades or never, and the definition keeps shifting too. The bar for what "counts" moves as AI gets better. A sensible approach for anyone not researching the topic is curious scepticism in both directions.

The practical advice is simpler than the debate: your organisation doesn’t need to take a stance on AGI to benefit from the AI that’s here now. The decisions that matter are the same either way: where are tasks being handled, who sees the cost, and who approves what gets sent out? If you’ve got those things sorted, you’re well prepared whether AGI arrives in three years or thirty.

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