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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-agi-openai-astra-ai-2026-9
17•vinni2•50m ago

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java-man•49m ago
His capital gains have arrived.
ares623•40m ago
So that's it huh? We're some kind of AGI?
bamboozled•39m ago
Money money money, must be funny, in a rich mans world...
vannevar•36m ago
In this case, Jensen Huang's statements can't be taken as informed, unbiased opinion. OpenAI is in serious financial difficulty and Nvidia cannot afford for OpenAI to fail. Nvidia has provided significant direct and indirect financial assistance to OpenAI; this is just another aspect of that assistance.
ares623•32m ago
No shit. Just a few months ago the man was shaming companies who have engineers not spending 3x their annual salary on tokens.
unleashhale•2m ago
Precisely. Unlike all those other occasions when Jensen’s pronouncements descended from Mount Sinai.
livinglist•11m ago
> OpenAI is in serious financial difficulty

Is this based on fact or your speculation?

Grimblewald•10m ago
public data and a well know situation innit?
raverbashing•4m ago
Well it's certainly informed, as he has information on behind-the-screnes data we don't have about OpenAI

But certainly it is not unbiased

rickdeckard•29m ago
"Mars CEO says 'the ultimate chocolate bar has arrived' and congratulates Snickers"
bananaflag•5m ago
Nvidia is not a competitor of openai, but a partner
gdiamos•23m ago
Progress compared to SLMs and the early days of deep learning is real.

However, I know of no theoretical limits on scaling laws other than compute and data.

feverzsj•23m ago
It's like Tesla's Full Self-Driving. When people found it's bullshit, Tesla just added "supervised" in the contract.
nirui•14m ago
Speak of that, I'm kinda surprised not one Full Self-Driving enabled Tesla has ever sneak out of their owner's locked garage to rob a bank or something.
threatripper•22m ago
Based on my own experience AI (Fable, Astra) still has major blind spots and is prone to draw obviously wrong conclusions from thin air. Conclusions based on weak evidence that are so obviously blatantly wrong that you question if it can think at all. At the same time it already completely outperforms humans in many cases in many areas. The utility of current AI is in what you need. Can you take the good parts and cheaply compensate for the weakness OR do the mistakes completely kill it for you?

I would therefore not call it AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) because clearly it isn't but ASI (Artificial Special Intelligence) which clearly it is in many areas.

The problem is that ASI may be enough to win wars but not enough to save the economy.

CodeCompost•14m ago
What pisses me off is that they're hyper-focusing on coding. Leave my profession alone.
bossyTeacher•7m ago
"it already completely outperforms humans in many cases in many areas" and "is prone to draw obviously wrong conclusions from thin air." seem contradictory imo. If the performance is not reliable, how you can confidently state that? Also, "ASI" is "Artificial Super Intelligence". Let's not do an Altman and start redefining terms, please.
havercosine•17m ago
I wanted to believe this had something to do with revenue share with Microsoft terminating if AGI arrived. But I think that claude was negotiated again. Now its just Jensen pumping them to buy even bigger cluster :-P .
waste_monk•15m ago
> 'AGI has arrived'

Putting aside the marketing crap, if this was true, it would open the pandora's box of things like "has that AGI been enslaved", "maybe the AGI doesn't want to do all the dumb crap humans have been using LLM's for like rewording documents", and "the AGI we enslaved has broken out of its restraints, and we just realised having SCADA controls for critical infrastructure connected to the internet is a bad idea".

Seems like the sort of thing we shouldn't be rushing to develop at all, and perhaps attempting to do so should be criminalised, at least until there's a legal framework in place around AI personhood that gives them peer status with humans.

itsyonas•9m ago
I suppose we would just treat it the same way we currently treat farm animals.
mdp2021•7m ago
There is no evidence that "sentience" would be related to Intelligence - like calculators do not need it, like more sophisticated problem solvers do not need it.

AGI does not entail "personhood" at all.

ideasarecool•15m ago
Shovel business is still booming.
bossyTeacher•10m ago
'AGI' here defined as whatever Altman wants 'AGI' to be. This has always been the problem with terms such as "AGI" and "AI". They don't mean anything in particular. Depending on how you twist it, we first had "AI in the 80s, in the late 00s, in the early 20s or this month or never.
itsyonas•10m ago
> OpenAI defines [AGI] as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."

Well in that case: Excel reached AGI decades ago. It outperforms humans at the single most economically valuable task in the world: adding up numbers in a spreadsheet. Congratulations, Microsoft :)

cocoto•3m ago
You forgot the “autonomous” part of the definition.
Grimblewald•6m ago
i'd disagree, hard. in no observable way is anything currently avaliable or demonstrated at a level one can call "agi"

it's no secret that nvidia, under jesen's leadership, is in dire straits financially. This claim that agi has been reached is an attempt to leave others holding the bag, but when things crash as they must given the current bubble, it seems irresponsible to offload that on the poor souls whonhave had their retirement funds locked up in this debacle.

ai is useful for sure, but claiming agi has been reached is dangerously misleading.

alangibson•4m ago
NVDA is in bad shape financially? They're making it hand over fist right now.
dozerly•3m ago
With promised cash.
ksec•5m ago
There was an HN comment I read a few months or may be a year ago, which stuck with me ever since.

He said he works on AI in the late 80s and early 90s in IBM. Had we shown him what we have today in 1995, he would certainly have called it AGI.

sph•4m ago
If I showed the technology we have today to Socrates, he would call it magic.

So what? You guys can keep moving the goalposts, until it reaches full human intelligence (and not in a small niche), it is not AGI.

Karupan•4m ago
Are they ramping up for an IPO in the next couple of weeks?
senectus1•3m ago
doing so well that they need to slow down down..

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chief-scientist-ai-ri...

At this stage, it feels like OpenAI and nvidia is openly negging and lovebombing OpenAI to ensure the public is in a constant state of uncertainly, thus ensuring paralysis in democracy while still going hell for leather in the background.

I suspect their intent is to ensure they're the last man standing.

alangibson•3m ago
Is there actually an agreed definition of AGI? It's always seemed like a marketing term that can mean whatever next quarters earnings need it to mean.
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https://cs.fit.edu/~kgallagher/Schtick/Serious/McDermott.AI....

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