What is General Intelligence?
There is a lot of confusion published about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) so I felt I should weigh in on the subject since I am a serious AGI researcher and I have witnessed AGI first hand. A LOT of people equate the meaning of AGI to be equal to human level intelligence. Let me state emphatically that AGI is not about human intelligence although humans possess general intelligence. Also mice, birds, cats, dogs, and most of the animal kingdom possesses general intelligence. General intelligence is not unique to humans. One of the best ways to describe general intelligence is the tea (also known as the coffee) problem. I could fairly easily build a robot that could make me a cup of tea in my kitchen. It would do everything from get the items needed to dipping a tea bag into the cup after it poured in hot water. Then if I took this same robot over to your house and told it to make tea, using conventional AI, it would fail miserably due to the fact that the robot would have no ide