White House AI and Crypto Czar's David Sacks throw cold water on AGI's hype train.
AI companies are competing to achieve AGI or artificial general information. This is generally considered to be a form of AI that can reach human-level reasoning. Some believe that the continued advances in AI will lead to massive wipeouts like human extinction and even worse outcomes.
Sacks, a tech investor supporting major companies such as Airbnb, Facebook and Uber, wrote in an X post on Saturday that it hasn't made progress as quickly as AI predicted.
“None of this is about moving forward. There are significant improvements in quality, ease of use and price/performance across the top model companies. It's a great engineering thing and should be celebrated,” Sachs wrote in his post. “It's not like an apocalyptic declaration. Oppenheimer has left the building.”
One of the end-of-life scenarios rejected in his post is the fear that AI will lead to massive unemployment.
Investors said that they have not yet panned out as AI relies on many human input for prompts and verification.
“This means that the apocalyptic predictions of unemployment are as exaggerated as the AGI itself,” he said. “The truth is, instead of losing your job to AI, you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI better than you.” ”
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Sack is not the only agi naysayer.
“Agi is exaggerated,” Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng said in June that “Agi is exaggerated,” and that “there are many things humans can do that AI can't.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on a Lex Fridman podcast that he likes to use the term AJI or “artificial jersey intelligence” to describe the current stages of AI.
Sacks did not respond to requests for comment.
