The road to artificial general intelligence

MIT Technology Review - AI
Aug 13, 2025 13:30
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Summary

Despite impressive achievements in areas like drug discovery and coding, current AI models struggle with tasks that humans find simple, highlighting a major obstacle to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). The article questions whether ongoing AI advancements can lead to systems that match or exceed human intelligence in all domains, emphasizing the need to identify the key factors that will enable true AGI.

Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in minutes. This phenomenon sits at the heart of the challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Can today’s AI revolution produce models that rival or surpass human intelligence across all domains? If so, what underlying enablers—whether…