A prerequisite for artificial general intelligence is the ability of AI to Map All The Things: taxonomies of objects; structures of languages; systems of philosophy and law; flows of causes and effects; and mathematical, logical, and scientific knowledge.

The appearance that existing AI has such an understanding is a mere superficial effect of it regurgitating statistically likely correlations in writing or images. This appearance is then exaggerated by social media and editorial curation surfacing the most noteworthy 0.001%.