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Artificial general intelligence
Artificial general intelligence describes a hypothetical system that could learn and perform any intellectual task a human can, across domains, without being retrained for each one.
Prerequisite: Narrow AI
What matters
AGI is a research goal and a subject of active debate, not a deployed technology. Understanding this distinction helps separate marketing claims from current system capabilities.
Example
A single system that could unaided learn to diagnose disease, write software, and negotiate a contract at human level, without separate retraining for each, would qualify as AGI.
Common misconception
No AI system available today is AGI, regardless of how fluent or broad its outputs appear in conversation.
Recall question
What capability would distinguish AGI from even a very capable narrow AI system?
Keywords and related concepts
AGIgeneral intelligenceresearch goalnarrow ai