The rise of AGI-artificial general intelligence, where Al can perform any intellectual taska human can- is a tantalizing horizon. Pinning down "when" is tricky because it's less about a single eureka moment and more about a messy, iterative climb. Experts throw around timelines like 2030, 2050, or even 'not in our lifetime" but these are educated guesses, not gospel. The truth is, we're already seeing narrow Al-like me -get scarily good at specific tasks: language, image recognition, even beating humans at Go. AGI, though? That's the leap from specialist to generalist, and it's a beast