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.

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So why is the AI at the top end amazing yet everything we use is a piece of literal shit?

    Just that you call an LLM “AI” shows how unqualified you are to comment on the “successes”.

    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Not this again… LLM is a subset of ML which is a subset of AI.

      AI is very very broad and all of ML fits into it.

      • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        This is the issue with current public discourse though. AI has become shorthand for the current GenAI hypecycle, meaning for many AI has become a subset of ML.