AI Labs Say AGI Is Imminent—But the Term's Meaning Has Quietly Slipped
scientificamerican · reddit · 2026-09-17
Scientific American examines how "artificial general intelligence" migrated from a precise term in technical papers to a moving target used in marketing narratives. As OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others claim AGI is near, the article asks whether they even mean the same thing—and argues the AGI race may be more a dispute over definitions than a scientific milestone.
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