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No - the term "AGI" was really coined to distinguish general intelligence from narrow intelligence(s). There's an obscure earlier usage, but it basically became mainstream as the title of a book edited by Ben Gortzel who had in turn got it from Shane Legg.

Shane Legg would a few years later go on to co-found DeepMind, with creating AGI as their declared mission. Legg's personal definition of AGI is not just generalist AI, but specifically human-level generalist.



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