New Delhi, March 24 -- Human-level artificial intelligence is already here, at least according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. But it's not exactly what most people would want from the technology.

"We've achieved AGI," Huang said in a podcast interview with computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman, released Monday. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, has been the goal of researchers for decades and is generally considered to refer to AI which surpasses humans across a wide range of intellectual tasks.

It's a big statement from the head of the world's largest public company. The debate over whether AI is superior to humans at various assignments is an increasingly critical one, especially as companies attribute mass layoffs to the t...