artificial general intelligence

And even Acemoglu, a prominent critic of some of the most bombastic claims about the future of AI, said that while he once expected that artificial general intelligence was attainable in the next 60 years, it might be coming sooner, given recent improvements in the technology.

He suggests that, if we are to achieve artificial general intelligence, or AGI — the holy grail of AI research today — future AI systems will need to have such a life of their own and accumulate experience over years.

Now, they’re obsessed with building artificial general intelligence by any means necessary - even if they don’t quite know what that is.

Softbank, which led the investment round, said it’s backing OpenAI because the company is the closest to achieving what’s known as artificial general intelligence.

There’s a worryingly large amount of reporters who write with the immediate acceptance that A.I. will be artificial general intelligence, or A.I. will be good, or that this stuff is already proven and already powerful, because there’s so much money behind it.