【PitchBook-2024研报-】新兴空间简报：AGI研究（英）-10份.pdf

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Ali Javaheri

Analyst, Emerging Technology

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Originally published October 3, 2024

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EMERGING SPACE BRIEF

AGI Research

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Background

AGI has its roots in the mid-20th century, coinciding with the advent of the first

digital computers in the 1940s. Pioneers such as Alan Turing posed critical questions

about machine intelligence, leading to the conceptualization of the Turing test

in 1950. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined by John McCarthy in 1955,

marking the official birth of AI as a field. Despite early optimism from figures such

as Marvin Minsky predicting AGI within a decade, setbacks in research led to an AI

winter during the 1970s.

Progress picked up again in the 1990s with IBM’s Deep Blue defeating chess grand

marked another leap toward AGI, generating humanlike text and driving increased

investment in the field.

Humanity’s fascination with AGI is evident in pop culture, with characters such as

JARVIS from the Iron Man comic book and movie series embodying the ambition

for intelligent systems that act as both assistants and decision-makers. Today,

founders with AGI aspirations are raising capital, aiming to develop systems within

VC funding timelines by projecting current scaling laws. AGI is unlikely to emerge all

at once; instead, it will likely progress through human-level breakthroughs in various

domains, each contributing to the broader development of AGI.

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