Crossing the chasm from Generative AI to General AI. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Artificial General Intelligence or AGI refers to artificial intelligence (AI) systems that possess human-like general intelligence and can adapt to a wide range of cognitive tasks.
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In other words, the goal of AGI is essentially to create the most human-like AI possible. This will be an AI that can teach itself to essentially operate in an autonomous manner. Paul Ferguson, AI consultant and founder of Clearlead AI Consulting, says AGI would be capable of understanding, learning, and applying knowledge across diverse domains.
“The key advantage of AGI would be its ability to transfer learning from one domain to another, solve novel problems, and exhibit creativity and reasoning comparable to human intelligence,” says Ferguson. In simpler terms, Ghazenfer Monsoor, founder and CEO of Technology Rivers says unlike today’s AI, which is so good at specialized functions like facial recognition or voice translation, AGI can do almost anything you ask it to do.
His company develops healthcare software that uses AI to perform specific tasks. It can help doctors diagnose diseases based on medical data. “But [AGI] goes beyond that,” says Monsoor. “It can provide new treatments, analyze many studies, and predict health problems, in ways we never imagined.
