The idea of an artificial intelligence system that can think and perform tasks like a human has existed for decades, but it hasn’t completely come to fruition yet. While ChatGPT and similar chatbots can output text that’s consistent with human thought, they’re still limited to recognizing and repeating patterns. They don’t have any autonomy or ability to self-learn, improve, and solve never-seen-before problems. But some believe that we’re steadily marching towards AGI, artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical future where computers possess abilities that rival our own.
Language models like GPT-4 and Google Gemini can already talk, draw, and recognize images like a human, though, so what sets AGI apart from them? Let’s break it down in this article on artificial general intelligence, or AGI.