Jensen Huang: We have achieved AGI now... sort of
Lots of AI leaders are thinking about a big moment looming over the current AI boom: when will we have achieved artificial general intelligence?
There’s no shortage of predictions, but we haven’t yet seen a full-throated declaration that this slippery milestone has been achieved.
Until now. On Lex Fridman’s podcast Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was asked what he thought the timeline looked like for “an AI system that’s able to essentially do your job. So, run — no, start, grow, and run a successful technology company.”
Huang confidently answered: “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
Huang then hedged, noting that Fridman was talking about running a $1 billion dollar company, but he didn’t specify for how long. Huang elaborated, “It is not out of the question that a Claude was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for $0.50, and then it went out of business again shortly after.”
So maybe it will be a while before Jensen Huang can get help running Nvidia by eating his own dog food.
Updated to correct the spelling of Lex Fridman’s last name.
Huang confidently answered: “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
Huang then hedged, noting that Fridman was talking about running a $1 billion dollar company, but he didn’t specify for how long. Huang elaborated, “It is not out of the question that a Claude was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for $0.50, and then it went out of business again shortly after.”
So maybe it will be a while before Jensen Huang can get help running Nvidia by eating his own dog food.
Updated to correct the spelling of Lex Fridman’s last name.
