Rippling Co-founder tweets notes of convo with Sama then deletes (opens in new tab)

All these tech "influencers" and CEOs have such laughable opinions on AGI. First, they cannot really seem to give a formal definition of AGI (are we talking about some network that can problem solving in n > 2 problems or defining and creating consciousness)? Second, it's clear many of these people are just bandwagoning onto the hype. They started with crypto, then maybe some VR, and now are moving to AI/AGI coat-tailing on the accomplishments of OpenAI and DeepMind. What exactly about AGI do they find compelling or find feasible? Are they asserting that a deep learning networks of 2 separate problem spaces can be combined in an elegant manner? It's all just spew that looks like some article that can be posted on Vixra.

These tech "influencers" and "big CEOs" know no shame in their constant attention seeking. I guess to be fair, many people on HN or other platforms talk about AGI and other popular things, but the statements and arguments generally are a lot more specific or nuanced, relative to these quackery beliefs from "influencers" who are clearly attempting to gather a digital "I am smart" badge. Just lol.

Except sama has quite explicitly said that these LLMs are not AGI and that there's a long way to go. Presumably it was deleted because either: it is counter to the lie sama is telling about his belief about what is/isn't AGI... or the author was mistaken in their understanding of what sama said. I assume the latter, since ChatGPT is obviously not AGI.

"[...] interesting to me how many of the ChatGPT takes are either "this is AGI" (obviously not close, lol) [...]"

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1599111626191294464

I wish some of these ‘big names’ would make an effort to define all the terms. Which people are not into hyping but could be part of defining what AGI is, so we can put this ‘we have it in a couple of months’ to bed?

Carmack is doing an AGI startup; maybe he can offer a definition of what it is exactly his company will attempt to deliver and how we can recognise it when/if it does?

If there's any debate on whether the Dunning–Kruger effect is real, just look at a 'tech influencers' tweets about neural networks.