# Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

DevFeed: [Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/measuring-progress-toward-agi-a-cognitive-framework-6218.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://deepmind.google/blog/measuring-progress-toward-agi-a-cognitive-framework/>)

Author: Ryan Burnell

Published: 2026-03-17T16:03:47Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Google DeepMind News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/google-deepmind-news.md>)

Topics: [ai observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-observability.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarks.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/framework.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [kaggle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kaggle.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [none](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/none.md>), [reasoning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reasoning.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces a cognitive framework for measuring progress toward AGI. It proposes evaluating AI systems across cognitive tasks, comparing results with human baselines, and maps performance against human distributions; it also announces a Kaggle hackathon to help build evaluations.

## Source excerpt

We're introducing a framework to measure progress toward AGI, and launching a Kaggle hackathon to build the relevant evaluations.