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Fortune
Jeremy Kahn

Silicon Valley is buzzing about 'BabyAGI.' Should we be worried?

Photo of an infant dressed in a devil costume with a ptichfork. (Credit: Photo illustration by Getty Images)

Suddenly, Silicon Valley's technorati are buzzing about babyAGI. It’s a moniker that manages to sound both cute and scary at the same time, a bit like mogwais in the cult classic comedy-horror film Gremlins. But what exactly is babyAGI?

First of all, it’s not quite as scary as it sounds. Despite the name, babyAGI is definitely not AGI—an acronym that stands for artificial general intelligence and refers to the sort of all-powerful A.I. that is a staple of science fiction.

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