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

“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.

  • ✺roguetrick✺English
    11•4 hours ago

    It isn’t R&D anymore if you’re actively marketing it.

    • @GaMEChldEnglish
      7•4 hours ago

      Uh… Used to be, and should be. But the entire industry has embraced treating production as test now. We sell alpha release games as mainstream releases. Microsoft fired QC long ago. They push out world breaking updates every other month.

      And people have forked over their money with smiles.

      • @FauxLivingEnglish
        0•4 hours ago

        Microsoft fired QC long ago.

        I can’t wait until my cousin learns about this, he’ll be so surprised.

        I’d tell him but he’s at work. At Microsoft, in quality control.

        • @SoftestSapphicEnglish
          10•4 hours ago

          Make sure to also tell him he’s doing a shit job!

          • @FauxLivingEnglish
            4•4 hours ago

            He’s probably been fired long ago, but due to non-existant QC, he was never notified.