> intended to contrast with narrow AI

I've thought for a while that the middle letter in AGI ('General' vs 'Specific') would be more useful and helpful if it were changed to Wide vs Narrow. All AIs can be evaluated on a scale of narrow to wide in terms of their abilities and I don't think that will change anytime soon.

Everyone understands that something is only wide or narrow in comparison to something else. While that's also true of the terms "general' and 'specific', those are less used that way in daily conversation these days. In science and tech we make distinctions about generalized vs specific but 'general' isn't a conversational term like 50 or 100 years ago. When I was a kid my grandparents would call the local supermarket, the 'general store' which I thought was an unusual usage even then.

I guess "general store" made more sense back then though. I grew up in the UK in the 60's and food shops were "narrow" - fishmonger, butcher, greengrocer (fruit & veg), bakery, etc. From that perspective a "general store" would have been noteworthy!