A long study reached this definition AGI is an AI that can match or exceed the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult.[^1] AGI is a type of AI that would match or surpass human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. (Wikipedia) AGI is an acronym for Artificial General Intelligence Definitions of AGI across sources: | Source | Definition | | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Oxford Languages | a hypothetical form of artificial intelligence that can exhibit or simulate behavior as intelligent as, or more intelligent than, that of a human being. | | Wikipedia | a type of artificial intelligence that would match or surpass human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. | | IBM | a hypothetical stage in the development of ML in which an AI system can match or exceed the cognitive abilities of human beings across any task. | | Google | the hypothetical intelligence of a machine that possesses the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. | | Amazon | a field of theoretical AI research that attempts to create software with human-like intelligence and the ability to self-teach | Across these definitions, these two traits are present: - Can match or surpass human capabilities across nearly all cognitive/intellectual tasks. - AGI is hypothetical / theoretical; it may exist in the future, but does not yet. Of these, I prefer the Wikipedia definition for these reasons: - Shortest - Avoids the bulky words like "theoretical" and "hypothetical", but still conveys future tense with "would match" - Includes "virtually", conveying that humans may surpass AGI in edge cases, but only to an insignificant degree - "Cognitive" is a concrete way of defining the tasks AGI would perform [^1]: Hendrycks, Dan, Dawn Song, Christian Szegedy, et al. 2025. “A Definition of AGI.” arXiv:2510.18212. Preprint, arXiv, December 3. [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.18212](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.18212). [[hendrycksDefinitionAGI2025|Annotations]]