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Nvidia<\/a> CEO Jensen Huang just said, \u201cI think we\u2019ve achieved AGI,\u201d while on a podcast.<\/p>\n

Of course, this has generated a lot of buzz as, if he\u2019s correct, it would be a major leap forward in AI capabilities.<\/p>\n

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Spoiler, we haven\u2019t made AGI.<\/p>\n

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While appearing on the Lex Fridman podcast<\/a>, Fridman defined AGI to Jensen Huang as a tool to “essentially do your job\u201d \u2014 specifically, Huang’s role of launching a successful company that grows to a value of over a billion dollars.<\/p>\n

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In response to Fridman’s question of how many years that kind of capability is away from launch, Huang said, \u201cI think it\u2019s now. I think we\u2019ve achieved AGI.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then went on to explain that an AI might not achieve Nvidia’s lasting success, but it could maybe make a viral paid app that costs 50 cents and sell it to a lot of people before going out of business.<\/p>\n

He explained it could be \u201csome social application that, you know, feeds your little Tamagotchi or something like that, and it becomes an out-of-the-blue instant success. A lot of people use it for a couple of months, and it kind of dies away.\u201d Meanwhile, the odds of AI producing an Nvidia, even 100,000 agents doing so, are \u201czero.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The thing is, this isn’t AGI \u2014 even an AI that mimics Nvidia’s success wouldn’t be AGI. It would be impressive, sure, but artificial general intelligence is something much more special.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Future)No, we haven\u2019t achieved AGI<\/p>\n

Artificial General Intelligence is the holy grail of AI development. It would be a digital form of human intelligence \u2014 that is, rather than an AI needing to be trained on each specific task being asked of it (like existing, so-called narrow AI are right now), the bot would be able to apply its existing information to new situations just like a human can.<\/p>\n

AGI would combine self-learning, common sense, contextual understanding, and the ability to think abstractly at high speed into one system.<\/p>\n

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It would be a monumental leap forward for what AI is capable of, but as you might expect, it isn\u2019t something researchers have been able to crack quickly \u2014 with some debating that we might never achieve it.<\/p>\n

Even if we do construct AGI, most researchers believe that we aren\u2019t anywhere close to that eventuality. The majority of the 475 AI researchers surveyed by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (76%) said that scaling up our current AI efforts is unlikely or very unlikely to result in AGI.<\/p>\n

AGI isn\u2019t just an upgraded LLM; it\u2019s a whole different AI architecture, and it requires its own research and development \u2014 imagine trying to build an incredible airplane by making better and better cars, that\u2019s sort of what\u2019s happening with AGI and LLMs.<\/p>\n

At the same time, AGI isn\u2019t a well-defined thing \u2014 partly because it\u2019s hard to define something which doesn\u2019t exist yet. There\u2019s a difference between AGI and an AI that can simply do lots of different things, but where the line is drawn is difficult to determine.<\/p>\n

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AGI isn’t DLSS 5 slop either (Image credit: Nvidia)<\/p>\n

What further muddies the water is the financial incentive companies have to deliver AGI, or to at least promise it\u2019s almost here.<\/p>\n

For example, OpenAI\u2019s deal with Microsoft <\/a>gives it some incredible benefits if AGI is achieved.<\/p>\n

AGI, and making it feel close, is also how you appeal to investors. The economic potential of AGI is huge for how it could truly revolutionize every industry, and the promise\/hope it\u2019s just around the corner is what could convince investors to hold onto their stake in the AI company of their choice for longer \u2014 or risk feeling the ultimate financial FOMO \u2014 rather than selling out.<\/p>\n

This is true too for Nvidia, which, as the pan and pick seller in this AI gold rush, wants to keep hype up. If it falls, demand for chips would drop too, and that would seriously affect Nvidia\u2019s bottom line.<\/p>\n

At the same time, many have noted that AGI isn\u2019t the be-all and end-all. Just because an AI isn\u2019t a jack-of-all-trades doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be a master of one, and just like humans, having someone\/something that hyperspecializes in a key area is more useful in a way than something that\u2019s okay at lots of tasks.<\/p>\n

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AGI is still some time away, if it ever happens (Image credit: Future\/Flux)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care if my surgeon is a decent horticulturist, could teach me to be a confident skier, and moonlights as a vintage car restorer \u2014 I simply want them to be a leading expert in human biology as they cut me open.<\/p>\n

As AI stretches into medicine, law, manufacturing, and everything, a series of individual experts is more than fine, it\u2019s arguably ideal \u2014 even if it isn\u2019t as flashy as AGI.<\/p>\n

So no, AGI isn\u2019t here yet, but AI disruption is, and it will only creep further into our lives. Today\u2019s as bad as AI will ever be. It will only get better, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before AI morphs from being an assistive tool to seriously eating up whole jobs \u2014 with or without AGI.<\/p>\n

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