Comment by drivebyhooting
8 hours ago
For people skeptical of AGI. Consider the following:
15 years ago if you were the sole proprietor of these models, would you be able to hold a dozen remote junior engineer jobs? Maybe even more? These models could certainly pass all interviews with flying colors and even survive independently in a company role.
I think sole ownership of AI 15 years ago could be worth north of $10 million per year. Just as rank-and-file employees.
For people delirious about AGI, you don’t get to it by redefining it favorably.
More than that I hope considering what it costs to make the thing.
Yeah, I can't believe all of the skepticism. If we're not at textbook AGI, we're awfully darn close.
The demo video showed Astra create a drawing of a rocket ship from an audio prompt, take the drawing to blender, and ended with the gentleman 3D printing the rocket ship. Maybe I'm a bit older than the average HN commenter, but that's damn near magic and a great many here are kind of just taking it for granted.
Cool. Being sole proprietor of AGI 15 years ago should result in monuments and religions devoted to you today.
Cancer should be cured, and we should be a post-quantum interstellar fusion-powered civilization.
I wish the AGI crowd would finally shut up now that it's clear no one is even trying for AGI (OpenAI revised that to "$100B in profit")
What we're getting is incredible, where we're headed is incredible, but some people have such a fetish for futuretelling they can't just shut up and enjoy the ride.
I didn’t realize AGI required solving problems modern human civilization hasn’t solved yet.
Well by that metric humans aren’t intelligent either!
And how many people could’ve actually invented calculus, relativity, quantum mechanics? Are those who didn’t and couldn’t also not intelligent?
This isn't the gotcha that you think it is: AGI's original definition is being able to do any task that requires human intelligence.
The unlock isn't AGI smart enough to invent quantum mechanics, it's suddenly being able scale human intelligence using grains of sand instead of decades of food and energy and nuturing.