"Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI president Greg Brockman declared on a call with reporters in September, touting the company's latest AI model. "For me, personally, I do think we're there." Recently, tech CEOs and people on X alike are throwing around a buzzword that was once a distant, largely theoretical goal for artificial intelligence. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a nebulous term often taken to mean an AI model that can perform a wide variety of tasks as well as or better than a human. Aside from Brockman, influential people who have said we've reached that point include Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang. However, others in the industry told Business Insider that the term is, at best, too poorly defined to serve as a meaningful benchmark. At worst, they called claims that AGI is here dishonest marketing practices. Read more about what AGI is and why tech leaders are saying we've reached it at the link in our bio. Story by Truman Dickerson and Brent D. Grif...