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If you were impressed by generative AI such as ChatGPT, then artificial general intelligence or AGI promises to really knock your socks off.
Over the past couple of decades, tech companies have been racing to build AGI systems that can match or surpass human capabilities across a whole bunch of tasks.
So will AGI save the world — or will it spell the beginning of the end for humanity?
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