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The creation of a machine with human-level intelligence that can be applied to any task is the Holy Grail for many AI researchers, but the quest for artificial general intelligence has been fraught with difficulty.
The search for a “universal algorithm for learning and acting in any environment,” as Russel and Norvig put it, isn’t new. In contrast to weak AI, strong AI represents a machine with a full set of cognitive abilities, but time hasn't eased the difficulty of achieving such a feat.
AGI has long been the muse of dystopian science fiction, in which super-intelligent robots overrun humanity, but experts agree it’s not something we need to worry about anytime soon.