Today’s tools are strong at specific jobs. AGI describes a system that would be flexible across all of them. Experts disagree on when, or whether, it will arrive, and even on how to define it.
Example
A video generator is not AGI: it makes video, but it can’t also do your taxes and plan a trip without being built for it.
Why it matters to you
You’ll hear the term in news headlines. It helps to know it describes a goal, not a product you can use today.
Related terms
AI (Artificial Intelligence)Software that can do tasks we normally connect with human thinking, like understanding language, recognising images or making decisions./knowledge-base/ai/Machine LearningThe way most AI learns: by finding patterns in examples instead of following hand-written rules./knowledge-base/machine-learning/
