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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.
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Gideon Lichfield
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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.
