Billionare venture capitalist and artificial intelligence (AI) evangelist Marc Andreessen recently claimed that "artificial general intelligence is already here..."
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He either doesn't know what artificial general intelligence (AGI) is or is unaware of numerous examples that glaringly reveal how AI lacks it. In those examples, AI comes off looking quite 'dumb' actually.
AGI is the stage of AI development in which an AI system matches or exceeds the cognitive abilities of humans across any task.
AI has progressed remarkably in the last few years, but it undeniably has not attained AGI. Prominent scientific skeptic and neurologist Steven Novella recently shared a clear counterexample on his podcast, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.
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