{"id":193266,"date":"2024-07-21T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/what-is-agi-and-how-will-we-know-when-its-been-attained"},"modified":"2024-07-21T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T19:30:08","slug":"what-is-agi-and-how-will-we-know-when-its-been-attained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/what-is-agi-and-how-will-we-know-when-its-been-attained","title":{"rendered":"What is AGI and how will we know when it\u2019s been attained?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Achieving such a concept \u2014 commonly referred to as AGI \u2014 is the driving mission of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and a priority for the elite research wings of tech giants https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/amazon-com\/\u201d<\/a> class=\u201d\u201d>Amazon<\/a>, https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\u201d<\/a> class=\u201d\u201d>Google<\/a>, Meta and https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/microsoft\/\u201d<\/a> class=\u201d\u201d>Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a cause for concern https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/artificial-intelligence-risks-uk-\u2026d6e2b910b\u201d<\/a> rel=\u201cnoopener\u201d class=\u201d\u201d>for world governments<\/a>. Leading AI scientists published research Thursday in the journal Science warning that unchecked AI agents with \u201clong-term planning\u201d skills could pose an existential risk to humanity.<\/p>\n

But what exactly is AGI and how will we know when it\u2019s been attained? Once on the fringe of computer science, it\u2019s now a buzzword that\u2019s being constantly redefined by those trying to make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Achieving such a concept \u2014 commonly referred to as AGI \u2014 is the driving mission of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and a priority for the elite research wings of tech giants https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/amazon-com\/\u201d class=\u201d\u201d>Amazon, https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/alphabet\/\u201d class=\u201d\u201d>Google, Meta and https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/microsoft\/\u201d class=\u201d\u201d>Microsoft. It\u2019s also a cause for concern https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/artificial-intelligence-risks-uk-\u2026d6e2b910b\u201d rel=\u201cnoopener\u201d class=\u201d\u201d>for world governments. Leading AI scientists published research Thursday in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}