Comment by toomim
5 hours ago
Artificial General Intelligence.
It means AI that is General, as in it is not specific to one narrow task, like object recognition or playing chess.
This was a hard problem for decades. No AI was general, until GPT 3 or 4. Now we have General AI.
So we have AGI.
That is part of it but the other (often implied) part is it can do general things consistently at a high level.
GPT6 will attempt to do almost any problem you can give it in text or image format and it will actually do a decent job a lot of the time. But its performance is still extremely spiky and it still makes basic mistakes and hallucinations.
So it's definitely a general artificial intelligence in some sense but it's kind of a weird one compared to the classic scifi idea
But oddly not weird compared to other classic ideas of entities like genies and monkey paws