In fact, this is what AI is basically like in Star Trek: The Next Generation, my favorite science fiction show of all time — and the one that I think best predicted modern AI. The show has two types of AGI — the ship’s computer, which eventually creates superhuman sentience via the Holodeck, and Data, an android built to simulate human intelligence. Both the ship’s computer and Data are approximately human-equivalent when it comes to taste, judgement, intuition, and conversational ability. But they are far superior when it comes to math, scientific modeling, and so on