Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a podcast appearance Monday he believed artificial general intelligence, a loosely defined term used to describe AI that matches or surpasses human intelligence, has been achieved, saying it’s possible full-fledged companies could be run by AI.
Key Takeaways
- Huang, speaking on computer scientist Lex Fridman’s podcast, said, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI,” when asked by Fridman how long it would take to clear the benchmark.
- Huang’s comment appeared to concern the larger AI industry, not specifically Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company propelled by the surge in AI usage among consumers and businesses alike.
- Fridman asked if a company could be operated by AGI, to which Huang said “possible,” noting OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform designed to run autonomously on the behalf of a user (OpenClaw is in the process of being acquired by OpenAI).
Contra
Huang later noted, “A lot of people use it for a couple of months and it kind of dies away,” saying the odds of AI agents “building Nvidia is 0%.”
Tangent
Nvidia shares closed up 1.5% on Monday, though the AI darling’s stock is still down nearly 6% on the year.
Key Background
High-level AGI is expected to be able to do things like run organizations or make strategic decisions usually left to humans, with critics raising concerns over the benchmark’s possible harms to public health, human jobs and more. The loose definition around AGI has made it difficult to pin down a trustworthy timeline for its creation and widespread use. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Forbes last month, “We basically have built AGI, or very close to it,” saying in a follow-up comment that his statement was a “spiritual” one and not literal, adding AGI will need “a lot of medium-sized breakthroughs,” as opposed to a singular, large one. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave Forbes a different take, saying the industry is not anywhere close to AGI and that, “We have a good process in place. It’s not about Sam or me declaring it.”
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