The Future of AI: Artificial General Intelligence - RTInsights

To attain true AI understanding, researchers should shift their attention to developing a basic, underlying AGI technology that replicates the contextual understanding of humans. Industry giants like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, research laboratories such as Elon Musk's OpenAI, and even platforms like SingularityNET are all betting that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can – represents the future of AI technology. Somewhat surprisingly, though, none of these companies is focused on developing a basic, underlying AGI technology that replicates the contextual understanding of humans. That likely explains why the research being done by these companies depends entirely on an intelligence model that possesses varying degrees of specificity and relies on today's AI algorithms. Unfortunately, that dependence means that, at best, AI can only give the appearance of intelligence.