Meta prefers the term 'Advanced Machine Intelligence' (AMI) over 'Artificial General Intelligence' (AGI) because human intelligence is actually quite specialized, making 'AGI' a misnomer; AMI is pronounced like the French word for 'friend'.

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Yann LeCun

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we call this Advanced machine intelligence at meta we don't like the term AGI artificial general intelligence the reason being that that human intelligence is actually quite specialized and so calling it AGI is kind of a misnomer um so we call this Ami we actually pronounce it Ami which means friend in French

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The Shape of AI to Come! Yann LeCun at AI Action Summit 2025DSAI by Dr. Osbert Tay
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:11:43 AM

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