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AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)

AGI (Intelligenza Artificiale Generale)

AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, denotes a hypothetical AI capable of performing any human cognitive task at or above human level, with the same flexibility in moving across domains. It contrasts with today's "narrow" AI, excellent at specific tasks but lacking general understanding.

Definition

Whether and when AGI will arrive is intensely debated: expert estimates range from a few years to decades, and some see large language models as a path toward it while others consider them a sophisticated dead end. The term appears often in the mission statements of AI labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic).

For businesses, AGI today is more a scenario topic than an operational one: what matters in the present is using existing AI well, which is already transforming work without needing to be "general".

Related terms

• LLM (Large Language Model)
• Machine Learning
• AI Agent
• Deep Learning
• Multi-modal AI

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