Thanks to an explosion of cheap computing power, AI is advancing faster than ever. But one of it's high priests seems to be firmly stuck in the past millennium...

Our tech oligarchs want an "AGI." No one really knows what that actually means.

Despite constantly using algorithms defined as artificial intelligence and losing millions of jobs to it, we're still not sure where this technology can go and if it's really intelligent.

Artificial General Intelligence, or a synthetic mind, might not be possible to build. But if it were, would we even want to create one?