Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?

But Legg and Goertzel stayed in touch. When Goertzel was putting together a book of essays about superhuman AI a few years later, it was Legg who came up with the title. "I was talking to Ben and I was like, 'Well, if it's about the generality that AI systems don't yet have, we should just call it Artificial General Intelligence,'" says Legg, who is now DeepMind's chief scientist. "And AGI kind of has a ring to it as an acronym." Goertzel's book and the annual AGI Conference that he launched in 2008 have made AGI a common buzzword for human-like or superhuman AI.