artificial general intelligence

also referred to as: agi

12 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Feb 8, 2024 by Logan Kilpatrick · across every show →

Everything said about artificial general intelligence, oldest first

Feb 8, 2024 positive
Insight
OpenAI views revenue merely as a proxy to acquire more compute
“Even if revenue is a goal, it's like revenue is not actually the goal. Revenue is a proxy for getting more compute, which is then like actually what helps us get towards getting more GPUs so that we can, you know, train better models and like actually get to t…”
Logan Kilpatrick Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 39:40 Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)
Nov 21, 2024 bullish
Insight
Masad: AI agents mastering software is how AI achieves general intelligence
“Software, like agents being able to do software, Is how AI gets more general because software runs our lives, runs the internet, runs our businesses. And so the more competent AI becomes at software, the more general they are in terms of what they can do.”
Amjad Masad Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 39:11 Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Rauch: 'AGI' undersells current AI's sparks of super intelligence
“Really, truly, I think, I've been a big believer That AGI undersells what we're collectively building because we already have all of this as sparks of super intelligence.”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 44:08 Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
Jun 22, 2025 neutral
Insight
Deng: AGI requires product builders to channel raw intelligence into value
“AGI is just necessary, but not sufficient. A lot of the value is still gonna require a bunch of hustle from a lot of builders to really turn that new source of energy and channel it into something that we humans want to use that solves some of our problems. An…”
Peter Deng Jun 22, 2025 ▶ 8:14 From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Insight
Shipper: AGI is reached when running continuous agents is economically profitable
“And so I think a good definition of AGI is when does it become economically profitable for people to run agents indefinitely? So it just never turns off. It's a cloud code. That's always running. It's always doing something. You just never turn it off and you …”
Dan Shipper Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 17:18 The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
Jul 20, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Mann: Anthropic avoids using the term 'AGI' internally
“I think AGI is kind of a loaded term. And so I tend not to use it very much anymore internally.”
Ben Mann Jul 20, 2025 ▶ 10:58 Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
Nov 16, 2025 negative
Opinion
Li: AGI is more of a marketing term than a scientific one
“I feel AGI is more a marketing term than a scientific term. As a scientist and technologist, AI is my North Star, is my field's North Star, and I'm happy people call it whatever name they want to call it.”
Dr. Fei-Fei Li Nov 16, 2025 ▶ 25:48 The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Dec 7, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chen: Achieving AGI will require breakthroughs beyond standard LLMs
“I'm in a camp where I do believe that something new will be needed.”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 33:43 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Dec 7, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chen: AI Will Automate 80% of L6 Engineer Tasks Within 2 Years
“In my head, I probably bet that within the next one or two years, yeah, the models are going to automate 80% of, you know, the average L six software engineer's job. But it's going to take another few years, do you move to 90%, and another few years to 99%, an…”
Edwin Chen Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 22:28 The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Proactive agents are critical to achieving OpenAI's AGI mission
“One of our major goals with Codex is to like get to proactivity. I think this is like critically important to like achieve the mission of OpenAI, which is to deliver the benefits of AGI to all humanity.”
Alexander Embirikos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 14:02 Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI-driven developer productivity will hockey-stick in 2026
“I think starting next year, we're gonna see, like, early adopters, like, starting to, like, hockey stick their productivity. And then over the years that follow, we're gonna see larger and larger companies, like, hockey stick that productivity. And then somewh…”
Alexander Embirikos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 1:12:23 Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
Apr 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cat Wu: AGI will take a long time to diffuse across society
“I think it will take a long time for AGI to diffuse across society.”
Cat Wu Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 1:22:24 How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
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