The AGI era is over #Vergecast

Is AGI dead? RIP AGI. — It's dying like a slow, gradual death in that no one knows what it fully means. — But no one ever knew what it meant. We all just pretended — exactly. A lot of AI CEOs have said, "I don't like that term anymore. Don't ask me about it. " Because they just feel like, you know, I think they're starting to realize like we're getting up to the point where they may have to actually say whether or not they've achieved it. And it's like they don't feel comfortable doing that. I am actually really glad that the idea of AGI as a moment is gone because I actually think it's been a real problem as we've talked about AI because it has everybody has framed it for years now and I don't think I really realized this until this week as we are building towards a moment and all of a sudden there is going to be a m like literally the singularity right and this is nobody wants to call it that because the singularity essentially means the end of the world in all of these movies and once we get there all of a sudden on a dime everything will change And centuries of technological progress tell us that that's not how anything works. And now the idea that we can just treat this like technology that just like gets better and starts to do new things and we can talk about this like we talk about any other technological innovation that has happened over the last thousand years I think is actually useful. Like we I we're getting to a point where we can have much more like rational conversations about what AI is actually doing. I think — yeah I agree. And also I think it helps us not be distracted from what's going on right now. I think that a tactic a lot of powerful people often employ is like you know directing attention and energy and fears towards this opaque uh long way off thing to be afraid of instead of what is happening right now and consequences of technology or innovation that are happening right now and who it's affecting. So, you know, hopefully with some of the spotlight, some because I mean AGI is still in a lot of these companies mission statements and bios, but some of the spotlight off of AGI, we can start to look at, okay, how is this technology affecting people right now?