artificial general intelligence
also referred to as: agi
35 statements across 22 episodes · 20 bullish · 7 bearish · 21 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Dr. Percy Liang · across every show →
Everything said about artificial general intelligence, oldest first
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Apr 25, 2023 positive
AGI-First Companies Must Make Product Quality Depend Entirely on AI
“The way you have a company that's both AGI first and product first is that you make the, make your product depend entirely on the quality of the AI. Like the most, the biggest determining factor in the quality of our product is, is how smart things gonna be.”
May 3, 2023 negative
May 3, 2023 bullish
May 11, 2023 positive
DeepMind synthesized 80 definitions of intelligence into one engineering metric
“And it was his work in, I think he, I think for his PhD thesis, he put together like 80 definitions of intelligence. And aggregated those into a single formulation, which was how do we you know, the intelligence is the ability to perform well across a wide ran…”
Nov 2, 2023 bullish
Sutskever: AGI requires massive compute engineering projects, not small research efforts
“Because if you imagine how an AGI should look like, it has to be some kind of a big engineering project that's using a lot of compute, right? Even if you don't know how to build it, what that should look like, you know that this is the ideal you want to strive…”
Nov 2, 2023 bearish
Nov 2, 2023 bullish
Apr 4, 2024 bullish
Apr 4, 2024
Adcock: Humanoids must precede AGI to avoid humans becoming physical actuators
“My view here is that we need to get the humanoid robot figured out pre-AGI. And whether we need the humanoid to get there, like, as it relates to the timeline for AGI or not, what I think is a really quite dystopian future is if we have AGI's here, and AGI wan…”
Apr 25, 2024 bullish
Peebles: Sora will evolve into interactive world simulators with autonomous humans
“And so looking forward, as we continue to scale up models like Sora, we think we're going to be able to build these, like, world simulators, where essentially, you know, anybody can interact with them. I, as a human, can have my own simulator running, and I ca…”
Apr 25, 2024 bullish
May 22, 2024 neutral
Alexandr Wang: Achieving AGI will take multiple decades of solving individual problems.
“My biggest belief here is that the path to AGI is is one that looks a lot more like curing cancer than developing a vaccine. And what I mean by that is I think that the path to build AGI is going to be in, in, you know, you're going to have to solve a bunch of…”
Jun 11, 2024 positive
Knoop: AGI is properly defined as efficient skill acquisition
“Francois definition, which is the one that I think is the right one is this definition that general intelligence is a system that can effectively, efficiently acquire new skill. That's it efficiently acquiring new skill and being able to solve these open-ended…”
Jun 11, 2024 bearish
Jun 11, 2024 bearish
Jul 25, 2024 bullish
Liu: Code-gen agents will not replace no-code platforms short of AGI
“I'm just very strongly of the belief that short of AGI, I think we're gonna have a really hard time having fully automated you know, Cogen agents that replace the need for no code, because You actually want to generate the outputs in no code because for a long…”
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Vinyals: Achieving monolithic AGI matters less than capability distribution
“The contrarian view would be, I'm not sure it matters that, that we achieved AGI. I think it might not look like Hey, like, it's gonna be exactly like the cognitive task we can do, and then we reach parity. It's gonna be a distribution of things that these mod…”
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Aug 1, 2024 neutral
Vinyals: Reaching industry consensus on when AGI arrives will be impossible
“And honestly, it's gonna be also impossible to get agreement, so it's gonna be quite, Cloud of moments that people might feel it has happened now, but it doesn't matter because the models might be used for amazing things and products and research itself, right…”
Aug 30, 2024 neutral
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Steinberger: Capitalism and competition are the only mechanism to navigate AGI safely
“The reality is I really truly believe that capitalism and competition are the only chance we have to provide a, an optimizer that is capable of getting us to the right place. I think we need the right guardrails to do that.”
Aug 30, 2024 bullish
Steinberger: Etsy exemplifies massive future demand for post-AGI human-made goods
“Etsy is a great proof of concept for what happens after AGI. This is completely useless. Like you could just buy the made in China product. It looks the same, but it's not made by the human, you know, so. That's the thing, I think. Like, that will grow really …”
Aug 30, 2024 bullish
Steinberger: AI alignment is only solvable via recursive automated models
“The only way to sort of reasonably approach this is to iteratively ask your model to solve alignment and safety at that stage, not, not, you know, surely you can also ask it to solve your product level problems, but like that, that's nice, but that's not the f…”
Aug 30, 2024 positive
Steinberger: AGI can be reduced to an AI that writes code and tests ideas
“If you your end goal is to have a system that can do everything you can reduce that to building a system that can build that system. And so that minimal system is a system that writes code and comes up with ideas and can validate those by writing code and runn…”
Sep 5, 2024 bullish
Nov 7, 2024 bullish
Nov 21, 2024 bearish
Dec 26, 2024 bearish
Wang: The path to AGI resembles curing cancer, not a vaccine
“My biggest belief here is that the path to AGI is is one that looks a lot more like curing cancer than developing a vaccine. And what I mean by that is I think that the path to build AGI is going to be in, in, you know, you're going to have to solve a bunch of…”
Apr 24, 2025 positive
Fulford: Information Synthesis Is a Prerequisite for Scientific AI Discovery
“Secondly, I think the overall goal for OpenAI is to create an AGI that can make new scientific discoveries, and we kind of felt that a prerequisite to that is to be able to synthesize information. You know, if you can't write a literature review, you're not go…”
May 29, 2025 bearish
Guo: Near-term commercial uses of world models are uninteresting
“I actually don't know that I believe that any of the sort of more immediate term commercial applications of these models are interesting. People are like, oh, we can generate games or we'll have like gaming assets or we'll use the data for robotics training or…”
Sep 25, 2025 bullish
Mar 12, 2026 bullish