Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the ability of a machine to successfully perform any given intellectual task that humans can perform.
If we buy in to the theory that animals, and therefore humans as well, are biological machines, there is no reason to believe an artificial machine could not surpass our computational capabilities relatively soon. Our species' intellectual growth to develop requires much longer than the growth that is required from a machine. It seems just a question of time for machines to catch up and overtake us.
At the moment, we seem pretty far away from AGI, preferring a type of intelligence that is specific to each single task it's required to solve. The most promising field for AGI seems to be RL, where we are now seeing algorithms that can solve different tasks (such as successfully solving different video...
