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In 2019, Microsoft announced it was plowing $1 billion into AI research lab OpenAI – which was founded by, among others, Elon Musk.¹⁶ What’s behind such a big investment? OpenAI is dedicated to creating something called artificial general intelligence (AGI), widely considered to be the “holy grail” of AI.

While AI can do some incredible things when it comes to “general intelligence,” AI lags way behind the human brain. In other words, AI is great at learning to do specific things, but AI systems can’t just apply that knowledge to other tasks in the way humans can. This is the goal of AGI – to create an AI system that’s as generally intelligent and flexible as the human brain. It’s not been done yet – in fact, we don’t know if AGI is even possible – but Microsoft’s investment shows it’s certainly a serious goal.