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AI vs. AGI: What’s the Real Difference?

Today’s AI is a specialist; AGI will be a generalist. Here is the gap between the tools we have and the minds we are building and what happens to us when they arrive.

Feb 27, 2026
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Hi dear one.

If you’ve used ChatGPT to draft an email, asked Siri for the weather, or amazed at a Midjourney image, you might think we have arrived at the peak of artificial intelligence.

We haven’t. We are just at the foothills.

While today’s AI tools are mind-bendingly impressive, they are fundamentally different from human intelligence. There is a mass…

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