Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and What it Means for the Future of Work

Tech Talk #1

Seth Godin said something in a recent podcast. He said that AI will soon feel like electricity did when it was invented. Everything will be powered or enhanced by AI so much that it will feel like talking about Electricity, a now basic necessity for all modern life. ChatGPT already feels very basic to people, everyone is amazed at what Large Language Models can do, but no one is asking where they should stop using AI in everything. It’s like Google now, no one is special or doing special things for using a Search Engine, it’s just a basic part of life now.

Although Artificial General Intelligence is something that needs to be pursued. Sam Altman claims that Open Ai now “Knows how to build AGI”, so is might be just a matter of if they will try it or not. AGI is basically the tipping point (or cliff) that AI can become “Self Aware”, meaning it can teach itself anything it needs to know, almost human type of intelligence. When it goes over that cliff, that’s what everyone is scared of, meaning there’s no going back from that point.

I do offer a counter argument though to all the Doomers saying that we might as well bow to our robot overlords already.