Is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) the holy grail of AI or just a techie’s pipe dream? In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down AGI’s elusive potential: an AI that doesn’t just crush one task but can think, reason, and solve problems across the board—just like humans, minus the coffee. We compare narrow AI to kitchen gadgets, explore why generative AI is a stepping stone, and ask the big, spooky questions: What if AGI outsmarts us?

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