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giancarlostoroyesterday at 9:04 PM5 repliesview on HN

According to Sam Altman:

> AGI is essentially the equivalent of a median human that could be hired as a remote co-worker... capable of performing any task that one would be satisfied with a remote colleague doing via a computer.

So... unless you hear of a company replacing their workforce with OpenAI agents, I don't think we're there yet.


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hypferyesterday at 9:07 PM

Interesting quote, thanks for sharing.

Agree on your assessment.

But also, interesting quote, because the business model relies entirely on IP law. Like.. if that thing exists and the sharing costs are 0 (just copy weights, lol), then why would I give them money for this. Makes no sense.

We only pay money for resources that are scarce as some sort of flawed allocation determination mechanism.

aaah this industry aaaah

rfgplkyesterday at 9:39 PM

> So... unless you hear of a company replacing their workforce with OpenAI agents, I don't think we're there yet.

You can already pretty much do this.

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phatfishyesterday at 10:06 PM

I thought it was Cmdr Data from Star Trek, but Sam's version is the certainly the one the c-suite think they want.

micromacrofootyesterday at 9:17 PM

we've successfully distilled the definition of human consciousness down to the capacity to do what some rich guy considers average computer work

senordevnycyesterday at 9:08 PM

I'm curious what tasks you think the median human could do as a remote co-worker that Fable or Astra could not do.

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