Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ AI proves that obsessing over AGI is folly

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In. For years, progress in AI has been motivated by an industry-wide yen to create software that’s at least as capable as humans - not at some tasks, but all of them. The precise definition of the goal varies, and two maddeningly overlapping terms, artificial general intelligence ( AGI ) and superintelligence, both get bandied around. But no matter how you look at the aspiration (or how long you think it will take to achieve), it’s about the ways the world will change when software can do everything extraordinarily well.