What is artificial general intelligence really about? Conquering the last leg of the AI arms race

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Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has been hailed as one of the most impressive and successful consumer software applications in history. Its release sparked a new leg of the AI arms race, inciting panic and hasty actions from Silicon Valley's heaviest hitters, Meta, Google, and Amazon.

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Drew Sonden, product lead EMEA at SS&C Blue Prism, says AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard are considered narrow AI. Narrow AI is classified as an AI that uses algorithms to complete a task without learning anything from that task or applying knowledge to another task.

"A true AGI would be able to undertake conversational engagements, carry out detailed planning activities, deliver mathematical insights, create novel artworks -- in theory, undertake any task," Sonden says.

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