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.

  • @ilinamorato
    1•4 hours ago

    Hmm. Maybe. Though then you start pushing that maternal mortality number up; and while, of course they don’t actually care about the lives of these people, they’d probably care that they’re depleting their “breeding stock” (ew).

    I’m still gobsmacked by that number, though. 800 million births per year. That’s half all childbearing women pregnant every year; one thing I didn’t think about earlier is, with recovery time, that means that literally every woman would have to be pregnant every other year.

    That would utterly torpedo our economy. We’d be basically losing a quarter of the workforce, all at once, and we’d never get them back.