Glossary

What is AGI?

AGI is the idea of an AI as broad and flexible as a human; it does not exist yet and is mostly a thing of the future.

AGI stands for artificial general intelligence: an AI that can handle almost any thinking task a human can, not one trick but everything. Today's AI is far from that: it is good at narrow tasks, but lacks real understanding and common sense. Whether and when AGI will arrive, opinions differ sharply.

What this means for you

A lot of the hype is about AGI. For your day-to-day work, what matters is what today's limited AI can and cannot do, not the distant promise.

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Last reviewed: 19 June 2026.