By Edd Gent
Publication Date: 2026-03-20 14:00:00
Few terms are as closely associated with AI hype as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But Google DeepMind researchers have now proposed a framework that could more concretely measure how close models are to this tech industry holy grail.
Artificial general intelligence refers to a mythical AI system that can match the general and highly adaptable form of intelligence found in humans. As the number of tasks that large language models can tackle has rocketed in recent years, there’s been a growing chorus of voices suggesting the technology is creeping ever closer to this threshold.
But so far, there’s been no clear way to assess progress toward AGI, leaving plenty of room for speculation and exaggeration. To address this gap, a team from Google DeepMind has introduced a new cognitively inspired framework that deconstructs general intelligence into 10 key faculties. More importantly, they propose a way to evaluate AI systems across these key capabilities and compare their…