Comparing AGI and Traditional AI: Now and Beyond

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artificial general intelligence AG I since the term artificial intelligence was used everywhere for anything related to machine learning a specific term called artificial general intelligence was created to replace the original meaning of an AI which is the AI that's created to learn to do anything it is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and the common topic in science fiction and futures studies AGI is a very different beast it's an AI that can learn to do different things the application is multi-purpose and can be used for any task from photo editing to timesheets to social media to be a bit more specific AJ I would be able to learn plan reason communicate in natural language and integrate all of these skills to apply to any task just like a human today machine learning systems underpin online services allowing computers to understand speech spot faces and describe photos and videos these recent breakthroughs and successes such as alphago can give the impression society is on the fast track to developing AG AI yet the systems in use today are generally rather OneNote excelling at a single task after extensive training but useless for anything else their nature is very different to that of a general intelligence that can perform any task asked of it so AG AI doesn't exist yet but has featured in science fiction stories for more than a century and been popularized in modern times by films such as 2001 a Space Odyssey in short AGI are the thing most people are imagining when we talk about an artificial intelligence strictly speaking but then when will it be invented well it depends who you ask experts and futurologists answers are ranging between within 11 years and never only the future will tell us like the video and subscribe to learn all the most Tuesday I terms [Music]