What is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? From the perspective of the educator, this is an interesting question because it's what we aspire to for every student we touch (minus the 'artificial' part, of course). In computer science, "AGI embodies the original, grand vision that animated the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at its inception: the creation of machines endowed with the broad cognitive capabilities characteristic of human beings, capable of understanding, reasoning, learning, and adapting across a wide spectrum of tasks and environments." It's not just 'content knowledge' or anything remotely resembling that; if chatGPT has taught us anything, it's that we can give a computer access to everything every written and still have it defy common sense. Ethan Mollick offers the term Jagged Frontier "to describe the fact that AI has surprisingly uneven abilities. An AI may succeed at a task that would challenge a human expert but fail at something incredibly mundane." This article (currently a 27 page Google Doc) represents the best a set of writers at Google can do to describe the history and meaning of AGI. Is OpenAI's o3 an instance of AGI? I doubt it. But also, I don't we'll recognize when we've crossed that frontier until much later, just as we have to wait a decade or more to see how our students turned out.
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