While much of the AI community continues to fiercely debate what artificial general intelligence (AGI) actually means, OpenAI and its largest investor, Microsoft, seem to have quietly settled on a definition all along. They reached a consensus in 2023 that they would consider AGI to be achieved if an AI system generates at least $100 billion in profits. To put it simply, AGI is when computers become capable of thinking as well as or better than human beings.
While much of the AI community continues to fiercely debate what artificial general intelligence (AGI) actually means, OpenAI and its largest investor, Microsoft, seem to have quietly settled on a definition all along. They reached a consensus in 2023 that they would consider AGI to be achieved if an AI system generates at least $100 billion in profits. To put it simply, AGI is when computers become capable of thinking as well as or better than human beings.