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What is artificial general intelligence?
Everything you need to know about the path to creating an AI as smart as a human.
In contrast, utopian imaginings, such as Iain M Banks' Culture civilization novels, cast AGI as benevolent custodians, running egalitarian societies free of suffering, where inhabitants can pursue their passions and technology advances at a breathless pace. The downside is that this combined intelligence could also have a profoundly negative effect: empowering surveillance and control of populations, entrenching power in the hands of a small group of organizations, underpinning fearsome weapons, and removing the need for governments to look after the obsolete populace. Even highlighting the potential upside of AGI could damage public perceptions of AI, fuelling disappointment in the comparatively limited abilities of existing machine-learning systems and their narrow, one-note skillset -- be that translating text or recognizing faces.
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