Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) can generate code, create new drugs and compose music, but it is unable to complete simple human puzzles.
This inability is at the centre of the challenge for artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is the focus of several companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI.
-Anthropic’s co-founder, Dario Amodei, forecasts ‘powerful AI’ could materialise as soon as 2026, while Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, believes AGI-like properties are already ‘coming into view’, which will lead to a transformation on the scale of electricity and the internet.
However, Ian Bratt, vice president of machine learning at Arm, notes large language and reasoning models are already transforming a number of industries.