Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here

Peter Norvig, a computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has already been achieved by the current generation of advanced AI large language models such as ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and Claude. These models have many flaws, but they are competent on novel tasks and can be seen as the first true examples of AGI, just as the 1945 ENIAC is now recognized as the first true general-purpose electronic computer. Early AI systems exhibited artificial narrow intelligence, but later deep neural network models trained with supervised learning such as AlexNet and AlphaGo successfully took on a number of tasks in machine learning.