Not so smart after all.
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When Will AI Be Smarter Than Humans? Don’t Ask
The term “artificial general intelligence” is being bandied about by some of tech’s smartest people, but nobody knows what it really means.
If you’ve heard the term artificial general intelligence, or AGI, it probably makes you think of a humanish intelligence, like the honey-voiced AI love interest in the movie Her, or a superhuman one, like Skynet from The Terminator. At any rate, something science-fictional and far off.
But now a growing number of people in the tech industry and even outside it are prophesying AGI or “human-level” AI in the very near future.