AGI — Artificial General Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that has the capacity to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can.

AGI, sometimes referred to as strong AI, involves a system with comprehensive knowledge and cognitive computing capabilities such that its performance is indistinguishable from that of a human, at least in those terms. Some researchers refer to Artificial general intelligence as “strong AI”, “full AI”, “true AI” or as the ability of a machine to perform “general intelligent” action others reserve “strong AI” for machines capable of experiencing consciousness.

Differences between strong and weak AI

With strong AI, machines can actually think and carry out tasks on their own, just like humans do. With weak AI, the machines cannot do this on their own and rely heavily on human interference.

Strong AI has a complex algorithm that helps it act in different situations, while all the actions in weak AIs are pre-programmed by a human.

Strong AI-powered machines have a mind of their own. They can process and make independent decisions, while weak AI-based machines can only simulate human behavior.

Can AI ever achieve general intelligence?

Artificial intelligence systems, especially artificial general intelligence systems are designed with the human brain as their reference. Since we ourselves don’t have the comprehensive knowledge of our brains and its functioning, it is hard to model it and replicate it working. However, the creation of algorithms that can replicate the complex computational abilities of the human brain is theoretically possible.