Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
A system that transfers mastery learned in one domain across all others with no task-specific training, matching or surpassing human ability across virtually all cognitive tasks. The goal large tech companies and countries are racing toward. Whether it has already arrived is actively debated: some classify today's leading models as early or "emerging" AGI, while others hold that true general intelligence is still ahead.
A vendor pitching a clinical assistant to a hospital's digital committee describes its model as approaching general intelligence, able to take on whatever tasks the hospital gives it. The committee still has to approve uses one at a time: drafting discharge letters, answering coding queries, summarizing referral notes. Ask the vendor to list the uses its contract and product documentation actually commit to, and ask for validation evidence on each one you plan to switch on, from a setting like yours.
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