Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be around the corner if Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has any say in it. The Facebook founder announced on Instagram that he is dumping more than $10 billion into the computing infrastructure to develop AGI — AI that can match or surpass humans across a range of cognitively demanding tasks.
“Today I’m bringing Meta’s two AI research efforts closer together to support our long-term goals of building general intelligence, open-sourcing it responsibly, and making it available and useful to everyone in all of our daily lives,” Zuckerberg said Jan. 18 in a recorded message. “It’s clear that the next generation of services requires building full general intelligence, building the best AI assistants, AIs for creators, AIs for businesses and more that needs services in every area of AI.”
Unlike artificial intelligence (AI) systems today, which are highly specific and can’t comprehend nuance and context as well as humans, an AGI system would be able to solve problems in a wide range of environments, according to a 2019 essay published in the journal EMBO Reports. It would therefore mimic the key features of human intelligence, in particular learning and flexibility.
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