When Will AI Be Smarter Than Humans? Don’t Ask

(Bloomberg Opinion) — If you’ve heard the term artificial general intelligence, or AGI, it probably makes you think of a humanish intelligence, like the honey-voiced AI love interest in the movie Her, or a superhuman one, like Skynet from The Terminator. At any rate, something science-fictional and far off.

But now a growing number of people in the tech industry and even outside it are prophesying AGI or “human-level” AI in the very near future.