Thing is, we’ve been doing cheap AI for decades. It’s more often called narrow AI, and it shows up in everything from video games to OCR to spam filters: do just what is needed to accomplish a specific task at minimum cost.
The idea of AGI is to make a bigger investment in order to solve a wider range of problems up front, instead of having to redo everything by hand in every particular project.
Thing is, we’ve been doing cheap AI for decades. It’s more often called narrow AI, and it shows up in everything from video games to OCR to spam filters: do just what is needed to accomplish a specific task at minimum cost.
The idea of AGI is to make a bigger investment in order to solve a wider range of problems up front, instead of having to redo everything by hand in every particular project.