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by Vetch 1324 days ago
> AGI does not mean “human level.”

The term general intelligence is ambiguous and will mean different things to different people. My understanding of the term AGI is it was coined to differentiate from narrow AI, which AI had diluted over time to mean.

AGI is AI broad and deep enough to be able to learn and perform any task a human can and is at least within the range of top human performers.

The wikipedia definition seems to agree:

> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can

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General has a strict technical meaning here having to do with skill transfer. A general AI can tackle a problem domain it was not explicitly programmed to handle, characterize its basic features, and apply knowledge it has from other problems in other domains to solve the new problem more efficiently than starting from scratch.