I think he should try surviving on a small-pay job, such as unloading trucks, for a few months, then go back and reavaliate. And mainstream media should stop cosplaying as The Onion whenever one of the clowns says yet another stupidity meant to inflate their stocks.
There certainly is a level disconnect between CEOs and entry level workers. That said, that has always been the case. I accept your framing that is it a little self-serving, but I am not sure media can be reasonably blamed here. For better or worse, CEO claiming we have AGI is newsworthy.
The full title is: "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim." The very first paragraph says the claim was made, not in some press conference or package, but in the Lex Friedman podcast. So, no, unless we are talking Onion, that's not newsworthy, that's just another wolf crying boy yet again. That's an insult to the intelligence.
As to disconnect and self-serving claims, the latter does go without saying, in that, at this point, it should be clear to everyone that those "warning" about AGI-on-the-next-corner or the LLM-powered doomsday happen to be the ones who profit by the technology's being taken as such; as to the former, anyone outside the "circles" such nincompoops belong to would be fired, if not arrested, for doing about 10% of what they seemingly can't blink without doing.
> Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion.
Didn't I see a headline about Zuckerberg (not so secretly) training an AI to do his CEO job?
What he's actually saying is "Some companies using Nvidia(TM) brand GPUs have AGI and if your company doesn't buy Nvidia(TM) brand GPUs then you won't have AGI, so buy Nvidia(TM) brand GPUs, now".
I think he should try surviving on a small-pay job, such as unloading trucks, for a few months, then go back and reavaliate. And mainstream media should stop cosplaying as The Onion whenever one of the clowns says yet another stupidity meant to inflate their stocks.
There certainly is a level disconnect between CEOs and entry level workers. That said, that has always been the case. I accept your framing that is it a little self-serving, but I am not sure media can be reasonably blamed here. For better or worse, CEO claiming we have AGI is newsworthy.
The full title is: "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim." The very first paragraph says the claim was made, not in some press conference or package, but in the Lex Friedman podcast. So, no, unless we are talking Onion, that's not newsworthy, that's just another wolf crying boy yet again. That's an insult to the intelligence.
As to disconnect and self-serving claims, the latter does go without saying, in that, at this point, it should be clear to everyone that those "warning" about AGI-on-the-next-corner or the LLM-powered doomsday happen to be the ones who profit by the technology's being taken as such; as to the former, anyone outside the "circles" such nincompoops belong to would be fired, if not arrested, for doing about 10% of what they seemingly can't blink without doing.
> Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion.
Didn't I see a headline about Zuckerberg (not so secretly) training an AI to do his CEO job?
> CEO claiming we have AGI is newsworthy.
If nothing else it should help make plain to more people that CEO is an idiot who can be ignored.
What he's actually saying is "Some companies using Nvidia(TM) brand GPUs have AGI and if your company doesn't buy Nvidia(TM) brand GPUs then you won't have AGI, so buy Nvidia(TM) brand GPUs, now".
Wealthy guy says that thing his wealth depends on is working out great!
https://archive.ph/ZyVFN