Meta joins rivals in pursuit of human-level AI

Zuckerberg said general intelligence was now his company's goal, largely to help attract the best engineers in the fast expanding AI field. — Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Jan 18 said his company is joining the pursuit of creating super artificial intelligence, putting it in a race with Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.

Sometimes called artificial general intelligence or AGI, the goal, given in an interview with The Verge, is to create AI that can problem solve and rationalise on the same level as humans.