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Artificial general intelligence usually means AI with broad, adaptable competence across many domains rather than one narrow task. There is no agreed test, threshold, architecture, or timeline.

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AGI names disputed ideas about broad general capability

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Artificial general intelligence usually means AI with broad, adaptable competence across many domains rather than one narrow task. There is no agreed test, threshold, architecture, or timeline.

Some definitions focus on human-level task range; others emphasize learning, autonomy, economic work, or a wider system of models, tools, memory, and institutions.

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Excelling at language and code while failing reliable physical action or long-term recovery complicates a single AGI label.

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Disputed broad general capability.

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AGIDisputed broad general capability.
ASIHypothetical capability exceeding humans broadly.

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Disputed broad general capability.

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Hypothetical capability exceeding humans broadly.

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