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AGI defined

...a machine that can use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans...

A. M. Turing

The fields concerned with intelligent machines still cannot agree where intelligence begins.

M. Minsky

AGI is the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can.

B. Goertzel

...systems that can adapt across a wide range of goals and environments...

L. Lake et al.

AGI is less a destination than a moving target.

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Latest revision May 24, 2024