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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

A hypothetical AI system that can understand, learn, and perform any intellectual task a human can, across any domain — rather than being specialised in one narrow area.

No AI system today is considered AGI by most researchers' definitions; today's most capable models are still narrow in important ways, even when they're broadly useful.
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