general intelligence

Overall thinking ability

General intelligence is the broad mental capability underlying performance across diverse cognitive tasks—reasoning, problem-solving, learning, and abstract thinking.

Psychologists sometimes call this *g* or *g factor*, proposing that someone strong in one area tends to be strong in others.

In artificial intelligence, general intelligence (or AGI, artificial general intelligence) refers to systems that can handle any intellectual task a human can, as opposed to narrow AI designed for specific functions.

The debate continues over whether IQ tests actually measure general intelligence.

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