Stanford University describes artificial general intelligence (AGI) as an AI system with general, human-level (or beyond) ability to learn, reason and apply knowledge across a wide range of tasks and domains.
Leading tech and artificial intelligence companies just claimed that AGI has been achieved, while also warning that "no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence."
Since the public launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT bot in late 2022, which has powered the early days of the artificial intelligence boom, the recurring questions over "whether AGI is here" and "when AGI will arrive" have been something the tech circles got accustomed to.
However, with the recent launch of OpenAI's new Astra model, or "GPT-6 Astra," Nvidia chief Jensen Huang said in a social media post that "AGI has arrived," with the OpenAI team also backing the claim.
"We're now moving into the AGI era (whether you see it as this model, the last one, or the next one), and could not do it without close partners," Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, said on X.
