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McCoy emphasizes that, despite this limitation, ANI has already achieved significant milestones, such as passing the Turing test, which assesses a machine's ability to exhibit human-like intelligence convincingly. ANI’s capacity to replace millions of jobs globally—estimated at around 4 billion—raises urgent questions about the future of work, particularly as AI continues to improve.
The Promising Horizon: Towards Artificial General Intelligence
Looking ahead, McCoy discusses the potential advent of AGI, which would possess a "general understanding" akin to human intelligence and surpass it. OpenAI and other research organizations speculate that AGI might emerge by 2027, driven by exponential improvements in computational power and algorithmic sophistication.