Fei-Fei Li: AGI is a marketing term, not a scientific one
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-09-08
On Lenny's Podcast, Fei-Fei Li shared her take on AGI — TL;DR: it doesn't mean anything. She says she doesn't know the difference between AI and AGI, notes we've achieved parts of AI's goals (like conversational AI) but not conquered all of them, and jokes that Alan Turing would just shrug at the question since he faced it in the 1940s. "I feel AGI is more a marketing term than a scientific term. AI is my field's northstar."
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