Agi, or Artificial General Intelligence, is an AI technology that attempts to mimic the “cognitive” abilities of a human being, including the ability to understand and interact with the physical, social, and cultural world. Unlike other forms of AI, AGI is designed to learn continuously, build on its knowledge, and even develop its own new task-specific capabilities that can extend far beyond what its developers originally intended. It is believed to be the best way to achieve full artificial intelligence, as it would have the capacity to solve problems of any kind independently and without requiring specific modalities or data sets. AGI is still largely theoretical and remains a distant goal for the AI research community.

See also: abiogenesis, agent-based modeling, emergence, evolutionary computing, integrated information theory