# AGI

> Artificial general intelligence: AI that can handle a wide range of tasks at roughly human level.

Source: https://www.superintelligence.com.au/glossary/agi/

AGI stands for artificial general intelligence. It usually means an AI system that can learn and perform a broad range of intellectual tasks about as well as a capable person, rather than being built for one narrow job like playing chess or translating text.

The idea matters because it marks a rough milestone in many people’s thinking: the point at which AI might do most of the thinking work that people do. Several AI companies say building it is their stated goal.

There is no agreed definition, and that causes a lot of confusion. Some people mean matching an average adult, others an expert in every field, and others the ability to do most economically valuable work. Some argue that current systems already count in some sense, and others that they are still far from it. Some researchers dislike the term altogether and prefer to talk about specific abilities. When someone says AGI has, or has not, been reached, it is worth asking what definition they are using and how they would test it. Timelines to AGI are also widely debated, and predictions vary greatly.

Related: https://www.superintelligence.com.au/glossary/asi.md, https://www.superintelligence.com.au/glossary/superintelligence.md, https://www.superintelligence.com.au/glossary/frontier-model.md, https://www.superintelligence.com.au/glossary/human-baseline.md