When one imagines AGI ability applied throughout our lives, the applications are, quite possibly, limitless. AGI will perform many tasks that humans already do with unparalleled efficiency, and those far beyond human capabilities.
Artificial General Intelligence Examples
Here are some ways that AGI might be used:
- Acting as an everyday copilot, providing guidance and assistance in various tasks from shopping to party planning
- Offering expert-level understanding of diet, fitness, medication, and disease mechanisms, leading to effective diagnosis and therapies
- Assisting healthcare workers by handling administrative and logistical tasks, reducing their workload and minimizing medical errors
- Entertaining with not only recommendations for movies, music, and books, but also creating entirely new works based on preferences
- Serving as a career collaborator, mentor, and problem-solver, and even contributing to the development of new products and industries
True AGI would not only be able to productively contribute to any such conversation — and perhaps even consistently solve our problems given enough time and information — but make the reasoning behind its “thinking” clear, even tailoring the nature of that conversation to the expectations of the user.
Imagine a kind of “everyday AGI copilot,” ready to provide whatever input or guidance its user might need and take friction out of life. They will take care of shopping, plan a party, make a financial decision, or mediate a disagreement with a friend. They will be present in the home, work, school, in transit, in every environment in which you operate. AI will engage with vast networks of AIs from those environments to enable local services and capabilities.
AGI promises to transform our relationship with our health as well, bringing expert-level understanding of diet, fitness, medication, and general life practices to everyone capable of accessing it. Potentially, AGI could understand the mechanisms of disease so comprehensively that it can offer effective diagnosis and therapies to treat and cure them. Imagine real-time health monitoring and detection, such as sensing the earliest cancer cells dividing and recommending genome-specific therapies to eliminate the disease.
For doctors and other healthcare workers, all of the administrative and logistical work will be done by AIs, freeing➚ at least a day a week for every worker. Medical errors are common and AIs are likely to be one of the best tools for helping medical workers avoid them, like assessing test data, drug dosage, and continuously updating the workers knowledge. Imagine an intensive care unit where humans and AIs collaborate in full-time patient monitoring and testing or an operating room where humans and AIs collaborate, often carrying out surgical tasks that require extreme levels of control as in brain surgery.
For entertainment, AGI won’t just be able to suggest movies, music, and books we’re likely to enjoy — something today’s AI models often do quite well — but would be able to literally create such works entirely from scratch, based on the precise preferences and desires of the user. Advances in both text and video generation are already unfolding at an impressive pace, which raises an obvious question — will future AI models be able to invent entire storylines, translate them into detailed shooting scripts with characters, dialogue, transitions, and the like, then generate feature-length, ultra-HD video footage to bring it to life? Imagine an expertly-crafted sequel to your favorite movie, book, or even video game, allowing you to return to a beloved fictional world as often as you want to find new adventures waiting for you. And even this, as ambitious as it sounds, is just the beginning of the ways AI might entertain us in ways currently unimaginable. When such capabilities are combined with virtual and augmented reality, the vision grows even broader.
Although it’s hard to conceive today, AGI agents would make for such great conversation partners and creative collaborators that, over time, we’d come to view them as peers, and maybe even friends. As AGI develops, its place in our world may soon be as social as it is practical. Considering that humans have developed unexpectedly deep bonds with machines as far back as the ELIZA chatbot➚ in the 1960s — about as simple and limited a conversation agent as can be imagined — we shouldn’t be surprised by the possibility of superhuman intelligence becoming a captivating companion.