We used to worry about AI becoming “sentient,” or that something called the “singularity” would occur and AIs would begin creating other AIs on their own. The new goal posts are something called artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a term that’s being subsumed into the realm of AI marketing and influence-pushing.
Here’s what you need to know.
How do we define AGI?
AGI usually describes systems that can learn t
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