You believe AGI is already here in a practical sense. Can you explain your argument?

Ali Ghodsi
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Co-Founder & CEO at Databricks

Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. USD 583 Million/month
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Started: 2013

I ask this question at every audience I speak to. How many of you think AI is smarter than most of the people around you most of the time? Ninety percent of hands go up. At Moscone Center with 32,000 people, almost everyone raised their hand. That is what I define as AGI. It may not be superintelligence but it is performing at or above the level of most human workers in most contexts. The disagreement about AGI being here is a definitional problem, not an empirical one. The real problem is that enterprises are not using these capabilities. They are still using AI as a chatbot or a coding assistant. The gap between what the models can do and how enterprises are actually deploying them is enormous. I believe it will take at least a decade for that gap to close.

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