Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion. He then asks Huang when he believes AGI will be real — asking if it’s, say, five, 10, 15, or 20 years away — and Huang responds, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
Lex Fridman is a fucking moron and his pretentious podcast is unbearable. These people are so dumb and unimaginative. Of course they think the test of general intelligence is the ability to be a profiteering capitalist techbro, and intelligence can be measured in how many billions you can screw other people for. Maybe when the revolution comes it will dawn on them that they were wrong. A person can dream...
Lex Fridman is a fucking moron and his pretentious podcast is unbearable.
Confession time... just like Elon Musk, initially I though Fridman was good. I even recommended his podcast when he started it around 2018. I was thinking "Nice, he's doing interesting technical interviews" then gradually it became longer and longer about broader and broader topics to the point I asked myself "So... is it still <>" then shortly after stopped listening entirely.
I think he's deal is networking. He started with his domain of expertise, namely AI, but then (that's just me speculating) he noticed the correlation between audience size and fame of the guest, so he tried to gradually climb the social ladder of guests, pulling bigger and bigger names regardless of the topic. He used fame from his employer, MIT, then of his guests, to keep on doing so, and it worked. I also imagined he noticed that the more controversial the broad topic was, again the bigger the audience.
So it went from technical niche to teach... to generalist discussion podcast trying to be "open" to the most outlandish views.
TL;DR: it started good IMHO but it slowly yet surely devolved into garbage indeed.
Guy who sells AI: This stuff is scary powerful and it keeps me awake at night. Nobody should be allowed to make this ever again. Make it illegal. Also, we can safely control it and use its power. Invest in us to use this useful tool. But nobody else can make a profit- er, I mean, do the dangerous thing.
Oh he's clearly very desperate for the hype to keep going. His ass is literally on the line. (I mean, golden parachute, but he'll never work again), so no more infinite money glitch.
I forget who said it, but if AI doesn't literally surpass all current realms of thinking and automate everything, i.e. what they promised, it has failed. To the investors it means it failed. With that, the stock does not continue up exponentially, which to investors also means it failed. Then they demand he resign, and they put someone else in there.
He could have stayed realistic through the whole thing. "Hey everyone, we're learning day by day, and we're proud to be the chipmakers to bring this to you." Modest growth, but sustainable long term growth. Instead they drank the kool-aid full on, and said that it'll cure all disease and wipe out hunger and everything else. Now he's freaking out because all of the latest ideas are duds, people aren't buying the hype anymore, and that means Jensen might be looking at the end of his tenure.
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RiQuY@lemmy.zip · 178 pts · 178d
I think we have achieved false advertising.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 93 pts · 178d
Lex Fridman is a fucking moron and his pretentious podcast is unbearable. These people are so dumb and unimaginative. Of course they think the test of general intelligence is the ability to be a profiteering capitalist techbro, and intelligence can be measured in how many billions you can screw other people for. Maybe when the revolution comes it will dawn on them that they were wrong. A person can dream...
utopiah@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 178d
Confession time... just like Elon Musk, initially I though Fridman was good. I even recommended his podcast when he started it around 2018. I was thinking "Nice, he's doing interesting technical interviews" then gradually it became longer and longer about broader and broader topics to the point I asked myself "So... is it still <>" then shortly after stopped listening entirely.
I think he's deal is networking. He started with his domain of expertise, namely AI, but then (that's just me speculating) he noticed the correlation between audience size and fame of the guest, so he tried to gradually climb the social ladder of guests, pulling bigger and bigger names regardless of the topic. He used fame from his employer, MIT, then of his guests, to keep on doing so, and it worked. I also imagined he noticed that the more controversial the broad topic was, again the bigger the audience.
So it went from technical niche to teach... to generalist discussion podcast trying to be "open" to the most outlandish views.
TL;DR: it started good IMHO but it slowly yet surely devolved into garbage indeed.
helix@feddit.org · 13 pts · 178d
Capitalism in general, in a nutshell.
manxu@piefed.social · 4 pts · 178d
Hé may also have started employing someone to do the bookings and they had no domain knowledge?
aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml · 64 pts · 178d
Guy who sells AI says they have the BEST AI EVER! Shocking!!!1
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 23 pts · 178d
Guy who sells AI: This stuff is scary powerful and it keeps me awake at night. Nobody should be allowed to make this ever again. Make it illegal. Also, we can safely control it and use its power. Invest in us to use this useful tool. But nobody else can make a profit- er, I mean, do the dangerous thing.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 178d
On this day, AGI was achieved for the 11,927th time.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 178d
Year of the
Linux DesktopAGI Singularity.Greddan@feddit.org · 35 pts · 178d
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 178d
Ask it for a picture with no elephants.
Trex202@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 178d
I knew it was bad, but not this bad.
Tinidril@midwest.social · -1 pts · 178d
To be fair, that's exactly the kind of picture that would pop into my head given that prompt. Try to imagine that your nose doesn't itch.
MolochHorridus@piefed.social · 18 pts · 178d
My nose does not itch.
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 178d
Hey man, fuck you
MolochHorridus@piefed.social · 7 pts · 178d
Thanks, you have a nice day too.
vatlark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Try not to think of a pink elephant.
Mistral worked:
onlooker@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 178d
And we should listen to this snake oil salesman why?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 178d
His sweet leather jacket.
deus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 178d
Every time his name gets mentioned, his jacket gets a little bit shinier
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 177d
That's DLSS5.
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 176d
The shaders still struggle with specular reflections, huh?
awesomesauce309@midwest.social · 29 pts · 178d
AGI isn’t when you think, it’s when it thinks. If it exists prove it or else you’re just pumping hype into the bubble
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 27 pts · 178d
Oh he's clearly very desperate for the hype to keep going. His ass is literally on the line. (I mean, golden parachute, but he'll never work again), so no more infinite money glitch.
I forget who said it, but if AI doesn't literally surpass all current realms of thinking and automate everything, i.e. what they promised, it has failed. To the investors it means it failed. With that, the stock does not continue up exponentially, which to investors also means it failed. Then they demand he resign, and they put someone else in there.
He could have stayed realistic through the whole thing. "Hey everyone, we're learning day by day, and we're proud to be the chipmakers to bring this to you." Modest growth, but sustainable long term growth. Instead they drank the kool-aid full on, and said that it'll cure all disease and wipe out hunger and everything else. Now he's freaking out because all of the latest ideas are duds, people aren't buying the hype anymore, and that means Jensen might be looking at the end of his tenure.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 178d
ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 178d
And DLSS5 wasn't generative AI... Ok grifter
ttayh@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 177d
He literally said it was gen ai during the keynote. The lie was on it not touching geometry
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 178d
Lex Fridman interviews another Zionist hack. More news at 11.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 178d
I honestly don't understand how Lex Fridman managed to build a successful channel. The guy has all the charisma of a wet blanket.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 178d
Turns out you just let everyone on the Epstein list prattle and you get to the top of the Youtube algorithm.
yogthos@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 178d
when you put it that way it makes a lot of sense
Eggyhead@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 178d
The bubble must be showing signs of weakening.
ttayh@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 177d
That's why he was trying to make "flywheel" the new buzzword during gtc
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 178d
Is there LSD woven into his mid life crisis leather jackets he wears?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 177d
God damnit, he's singlehandedly made them uncool. Now what will I wear when I get a mid-life crisis?
anachronist@midwest.social · 23 pts · 178d
NVidia's Jensen Huang has a bag he wants you to hold.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 178d
I was going to say I haven't held any nVidia bags in years, but then I spied my Switch 2.
helix@feddit.org · 6 pts · 178d
My fucking car has an Nvidia APU :(
Cornelius@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 178d
Reading these comments was a real treat, glad to see the hate for generative AI leveling up
Routhinator@startrek.website · 13 pts · 178d
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhahahha....
deep breath
Hahahhahahahhahahhahahhaha....
Fuck off you twat. Your chatbots are stupid.
ChristerMLB@piefed.social · 13 pts · 178d
must be tuesday
lennee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 178d
top signal
Tangentism@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 178d
I can't keep up with all the acronyms. Does AGI mean 'Anal Girth Ingestion'?
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 178d
Wow I think I have achieved SOY 😮👉
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 176d
I hope not. We'd be so fucked.
eru@mouse.chitanda.moe · 1 pts · 177d
mbruh