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@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I think they meant the economy, not population,

    About halfway through this research bender, I realized that. But I was having too much fun to stop. I justified it with–there’s really no way to sustain 10% annual economic growth without a 10% annual birth rate. You just have to have those workers, homeowners, economic entities, businesspeople, etc. being born and joining the economy.

    but still, quality comment right here.

    People who don’t do math are doomed to talk nonsense. And you just used math to showcase the stupidity. Bravo, sir.

    You’re very kind. Thank you.

    One of my pet peeves is all the people concerned about the birth rate.

    We are at a time in the history of the planet where there have never existed as many homo sapiens as there are today, and that record will get broken every day for the next 20-50 years.

    That’s part and parcel with our remarkably low death rate, too. In fact, our death rate is so low that our replacement rate could actually go below 2 and the population would still keep growing for a few years. That’s unprecedented through human history.

    Of all the times to want a higher birth rate since we have existed as a species, this just ain’t the time where it makes any kind of logical sense.

    It definitely isn’t our biggest problem as a species. Either way, honestly; we don’t need to try to make it bigger or smaller.