From Generative AI to AGI: Are We Teaching Machines to Think?

Generative AI (AIGC) is changing how machines create — from text to images — but it might also be laying the groundwork for artificial general intelligence (AGI). While AIGC excels at creativity and cross-modal learning, it still lacks reasoning, common sense, and ethical grounding. This article explores how AIGC is accelerating AGI’s development, where the real gap remains, and why getting the ethics right now matters more than ever.

Generative AI is no longer a futuristic buzzword — it's already reshaping how we write, draw, compose, and design. But could it also be the stepping stone to something far more powerful: artificial general intelligence (AGI)?

This article explores how AIGC (AI-Generated Content) technologies — from text and image generation to multimodal learning — are informing, enabling, and accelerating the journey toward AGI. It also takes a critical look at where the gap still lies, and the ethical challenges ...