As I remember it, Ben wanted to write a book focused on AI that wasn't domain specific and was wanting to call it "Real AI". I said that would most likely just turn off non-"Real AI" people as it bluntly implied that what they are doing isn't worthwhile. I suggested that we needed something much more boring and serious sounding and Ben agreed that it might be a good idea. I made a few suggestions, in particular I suggested artificial general intelligence or AGI for short. It appeared to be the most straight forward label for what Ben had in mind. I'd never heard it used before and figured that it might already be in use so I did a search on the internet but couldn't find anything.
After a kind of email show-of-hands on the Real AI book email list (which Ben, Peter and I think yourself? were on) the term AGI was decided to be the best label for our purposes and has since stuck. Cheers Shane Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
Was it Ben Goertzel or Peter Voss who first coined the term "Artificial General Intelligence"?-------
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