On the Road to Functional AGI with HuggingGPT and its Peers

Functional Artificial General Intelligence (F-AGI) is the automation of a sufficient scope of tasks in a closed environment that can outperform a human in a workplace. We use the term F-AGI to describe an AI system’s capabilities and the risks related to job losses. Beyond the risks, another factor has become critical: volume. Human activity requires millions of micro-decisions to produce services, products, and communication resources. F-AGI has begun to emerge out of necessity.

The term F-AGI avoids the confusion with the AGI myth of a sentient, conscious, humanoid AI agent. F-AGI restricts its scope to a closed domain in a workplace. An F-AGI can work 24/7. It can solve millions of tasks per day. It will prove invaluable in critical situations such as wildfire prevention, flight planning to reduce carbon emissions, and a limitless variety of productive activities.

Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Hugging Face...