// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
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It’s a ‘senseless’ milestone, according to Nvidia’s CEO.
It’s a ‘senseless’ milestone, according to Nvidia’s CEO.
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On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.”
He’s right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus on what artificial general intelligence means, let alone how we’ll know when we’ve actually got there, which makes achieving it equally arbitrary.
Asked about OpenAI’s pursuit of AGI, Huang said that when it comes to Nvidia, “for many tasks, we could say that we’ve already achieved AGI.” He did not provide a precise definition or benchmark, but added, “I think of all of those milestones and all those, you know, they’re kind of senseless at this point.” He also pointed to AI moving beyond responding to simple prompts to autonomous agents capable of learning new skills and improving themselves “recursively.” What really matters, Huang said, is that AI is “doing productive and useful work” and “generating profitable tokens,” with more compute producing more tokens — and, inevitably, more profit. “This is the exact phase where we’re at. Which is the reason why everybody’s leaning in.”