The Real Value of AI Isn’t General Intelligence

While AGI’s impact on humanity will surely be profound, the real economic opportunity lies in narrow, cost-efficient models that can handle specialized tasks.

Unlike a calculator that can solve a limited number of operations, AGI can generalize, learn and comprehend.

In their letter to the board, researchers flagged AI’s prowess and potential danger, the sources said without specifying the exact safety concerns noted in the letter. There has long been discussion among computer scientists about the danger ... See more

In particular, there is no such thing as “general” intelligence. On an abstract level, we know this for a fact via the “no free lunch” theorem — stating that no problem-solving algorithm can outperform random chance across all possible problems. If intelligence is a problem-solving algorithm, then it can only be understood with respect to a specifi

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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the vast majority of useful AI is not about creating an artificial human personality. It is about creating tools that are endowed with intelligence, and capable of performing far more complex tasks than before.

AI will bifurcate the economy into real and AI worlds .

There is obviously leverage in AI, but it's almost certainly going to go to the big platforms. This is not a PC or internet-level disruption. This is an easy bolt on for the cloud providers, or for the companies who already have attention or data. There are going to be exceptions. Someone is going to build a $10 billion company out of AI. There wil... See more

While I personally wouldn’t go so far as to describe current LLMs as “a solution in search of a problem” like cryptocurrency has famously been described as, I do think the description rings true in an overall economic/business sense so far. Was there really a great crying need for new ways to cheat on academic essays? Probably not. Will chatting wi... See more