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AI Literacy

What Is AI?

Narrow AI vs AGI

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Everything that exists is narrow

Every AI system deployed today is narrow AI — superhuman at one thing, helpless at everything else. AlphaGo beat the world champion at Go but can't play checkers. Your spam filter can't recognize faces. GPT can write an essay but can't drive a car.

AGI — artificial general intelligence — is the hypothetical opposite: a system that could learn any intellectual task a human can, transferring skills between domains the way people do.

insight

An LLM that writes poetry and code *feels* general — but it still can't learn a new board game by playing it, or adapt to a job it wasn't trained for.