The Mass Effect universe distinguishes between AI, which is smart enough to be a person—like EDI or the geth—and VI (virtual intelligence), which is more or less a chatbot interface to some data system. So if you encounter a directory on the Citadel, say, and it projects a hologram of a human or asari that you can ask questions about where to go, that would be VI. You don't need to worry about its feelings, because while it understands you in natural language, it's not really sentient or thinking.
replyWhat we have today in the form of LLMs would be a VI under Mass Effect's rules, and not a very good one.
Peter F Hamiltons Sci-Fi novels, do something similar they differentiate between SI (Sentient Intelligence) which is basically their own being, and is not used by people as it would be essentially slavery. And for General Purpose "AI" they use RI which is Restricted Intelligence with strict limits placed around them.
replyThe SI on Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth duology is pretty badass!
replyThis is a great analogy.
replyThe term AGI so obviously means something way smarter than what we have. We do have something impressive but it’s very limited.
The term AGI explicitly refers to something as smart as us: humans are the baseline for what "General Intelligence" means.
replyTo clarify what I meant, “what we have” means “the AI capabilities we currently have,” not “our intelligence.”
replyI.e., what I mean is that we don’t have any AI system close to human intelligence.