Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence

To come up with the new definition, the Google DeepMind team started with prominent existing definitions of AGI and drew out what they believe to be their essential common features. The team also outlines five ascending levels of AGI: emerging (which in their view includes cutting-edge chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard), competent, expert, virtuoso, and superhuman (performing a wide range of tasks better than all humans, including tasks humans cannot do at all, such as decoding other people's thoughts, predicting future events, and talking to animals). They note that no level beyond emerging AGI has been achieved. "This provides some much-needed clarity on the topic," says Julian Togelius, an AI researcher at New York University, who was not involved in the work. "Too many people sling around the term AGI without having thought much about what they mean."