Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the constant hype surrounding AI. During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's show this week, Nadella offered a reality check, arguing that OpenAI's long-established goal of establishing "artificial general intelligence," (AGI) an ill-defined term that roughly denotes the point at which an AI can best humans on an intellectual level, is nonsense. "Us self-claiming some AGI

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“The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent,” he added. “Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we’ll be fine as an industry.”

Needless to say, we haven’t seen anything like that yet. OpenAI’s top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail’s pace and requires constant supervision.

  • @[email protected]
    2•6 hours ago

    I don’t understand your point.

    The effects Iean are things like inflation and cuts in social security.

    If you mean that Republicans will find a way to rationalize blaming the libs - I agree that will happen.

    But they won’t actually like the inflation and lower social security.

    • OptionalOP
      2•5 hours ago

      More the latter about rationalization. In the real world such things would affect electability. But in our 24/7 Propaganda Turd Circus it will have no effect.