Because the term AGI is so vague and overhyped, I picked up "Artificial General Intelligence" (2024) by Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social ), professor of AI and gaming at NYU, to learn more. It digs into the history of the concept of AGI, and explores the question "what is intelligence anyways?"

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Hassabis: Large multimodal models of generative AI are going to be a critical (...) to developing artificial general intelligence, but I don’t think they’re enough (...) we’re going to need a handful of other big breakthroughs before we get to what we call AGI. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

If you instead want an equally accessible critical introduction to the discussion about artificial general intelligence, here's my book from this year: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254934...