artificial general intelligence

“I personally, if it wasn't obvious, I already think that the AGI risk is dramatically overstated. Right. And not what we should be talking about largely because I think I'll call it dirty AI, like dirty nukes. Which is like partial AI solutions or shitty AI th…”

“The story's become Ilya, The fundamentalist versus Sam, the pragmatist who just wants to build a business, because the reality is Sam Altman, the founder, even as a, you know, private conference a year ago, not even a year ago, the story was not only is the o…”

“Microsoft's not going to fund AGI”

“They've made the, you know AI, in particular the AGI technology into almost a sacred you know, they've almost deified this technology.”

“LLMs are great. They're a really interesting breakthrough in how AI technology works, but they are not sentient even remotely. And I think that this thing you're talking about, Britt, related to it telling someone to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, this is ex…”

“I mean, I, you know, you have people like Sam Altman on stage, you know, what now, 18 months ago saying we were 14 months from AGI and all the jobs were over, right?”

“Microsoft's not going to fund AGI”

“The research side of the AI community has, you know, is largely a secular you know almost always talks in a deeply religious tone. They've made the, you know AI, in particular the AGI technology, into almost a sacred you know, they've almost deified this techn…”

“The value of AI is AGI meme-y. Like, it's not, like, it loses a show of money, but it's, like, it's okay, because, like, AGI, right? It's very memetically driven. But the problem is that, like, it's a very binary zero or infinity value, and so it's extremely s…”

“Cause I'd argue that in a lot of ways, AI and AGI is next to GameStop, the ultimate, it's a meme coin. It's a meme narrative for very rich people. It's like Silicon Valley, very rich people, venture capitalists, et cetera, needed a meme to pile a bunch of capi…”

“Sam Altman sells AGI to get cheap capital, to build pretty basic AI. Elon sells Mars to get cheap capital. To build space internet and like more power to them, but it is all marketing.”

“I think we'll probably know that the AGI has occurred when the Waymos are like, no, I'm not gonna, like, march to my death. Like, that's gonna be the sign of sentience.”

“I mean, I get that it's like data quality in the age of LLMs is very valuable. But again, this has nothing to do with building AGI, like literally nothing.”

“The, you know, the original narrative was someone would get to AGI and then that would be the end of the game is not how this is playing out. Everyone's gonna get to the same shit. It's all commodity. It's all getting a price to the cost of energy. And it's al…”

“I mean, like they're just, I just, this is like a ridiculous, this is just ridiculous. I mean, it's like, whatever, it doesn't like, if you want to buy 20 cents of infrastructure per dollar in a thing with like increasing competition where it turns out the sto…”

“You know, I've spoken with a bunch of people about this at every other lab and they themselves have been surprised that a coding agent was, is the most promising path to AGI.”

“The very fascinating thing about agents is the more power an agent has, the more intelligently it performs. And so if an agent has an entire computer, like a Mac mini, it, you feel like you have AGI in your hands.”

“AGI is not happening at any of these places.”

“AGI is a meaningless term at this point. It doesn't mean anything.”