Question 1

What is the difference between AGI, the singularity, and superintelligence?

Accepted Answer

_Three different ideas that boardrooms constantly conflate, with the founder who coined "AGI" drawing the lines._

> A truly general intelligence should be able to figure out how to achieve any goal in any environment. To be an AGI you should be able to pivot beyond whatever you were programmed for: given an unfamiliar environment and an unfamiliar goal, figure out on the fly, with creative imagination and trial and error, how to achieve it. The singularity is a point at which the rate of progress in AI, biotech, nanotech and space becomes so fast it would feel infinite to a legacy human being like us.

Source: [Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052826/)

Question 2

Why would superintelligence follow quickly after human-level AGI?

Accepted Answer

_Once a machine can rewrite its own code, the leap from human-level to superhuman may be far shorter than the leap to human-level._

> If you have a human-level AGI in 2029, it is going to be able to optimize its own code and analyze its own foundations and exceed the human level in much less than the sixteen-year gap Kurzweil drew between AGI and superintelligence. This is recursive self-improvement: the AI makes a smarter AI, makes a smarter AI. We're actually designing Hyperon precisely for recursive self-improvement, which the human brain never evolved to do.

Source: [Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052826/)

Q&A, superintelligence

What is the difference between AGI, the singularity, and superintelligence?

Why would superintelligence follow quickly after human-level AGI?