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Xirdus 2 days ago

Traditionally, AGI means being capable of learning everything (not necessarily at once) that can be learned by the same AI agent. It differs from the commercially meaningful definition in that a standard specific-purpose-built AI can still do most tasks if you give it enough specific purposes, but it will be just as incapable of human intelligence as ever.

HarHarVeryFunny a day ago | parent [-]

No - the term "AGI" was really coined to distinguish general intelligence from narrow intelligence(s). There's an obscure earlier usage, but it basically became mainstream as the title of a book edited by Ben Gortzel who had in turn got it from Shane Legg.

Shane Legg would a few years later go on to co-found DeepMind, with creating AGI as their declared mission. Legg's personal definition of AGI is not just generalist AI, but specifically human-level generalist.