NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says OpenAI Has Achieved AGI - AI Circular Jerking

Eli the Computer Guy (0:00)

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Eli the Computer Guy (0:04)

The promised land has arrived. Coming from Yahoo Finance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says, AGI has arrived with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. We have made it to the technological promised land, boys and girls. It is time to celebrate.

I suppose that is what we are supposed to be saying right now.

You're watching this particular video. So you know what my opinion is gonna be. I mean, yeah, I mean, I guess. I mean, sure, fine. What are we actually using this crap for again? So I kind of think that this is an interesting thing. Like, I've talked about the whole issue I have with artificial intelligence for a long time now, and the big issue that I have with quote unquote artificial intelligence is that there is the artificial intelligence stack. There is the stack of technology, and this is a hardware stack. So GPUs and accelerators, ASICs, processors, that type of thing. There is the software stack, you know, CUDA and neural networks, embedding algorithms, vector databases and all that kind of stuff. And that is the stack of technology. And as I've talked about many times, right? I think the technology stack is amazeballs. I think it's great. It might, might, I will say might, might be as transformational as NoSQL databases. That's how excited I am about the tech stack that goes with this thing called artificial intelligence. But the problem that we run into is that, you know, we talk about things like AI and the normies, the normies get involved, right? And when the normies get involved, they have this story in their head about what artificial intelligence is, right? They think about terminators. They think about how. They think about countless, you know, Hollywood movies and television shows and science fiction things that they've read over the years. And so that's what they think about when they think about artificial intelligence. And the problem that we get into is these two things have damn near nothing to do with each other, right? There is a technology stack, and then there is the story, the science fiction story. And one is a story, and one is a technology stack. I think about this from years ago, right? Years ago, I got on the army with my electronics training. I had my MCSE, CSNA, worked in the corporate world. And it was when I was starting my consulting company, right? To be clear, I did not start a consulting company. I was literally at that point in time, really highly educated, working for $10 an hour at a temporary file clerk position. I shit you not at Mercy Hospital in the middle of Baltimore. And all I wanted in life was to be able to drink good beer again. So anyways, I put up with these pull tab signs. I was like, look, if I can make like $100 a week, right? You know, fixing people's computers, that means I can buy some micro brews again, and I can feel like a real adult. Anyways, I put up the pull tab signs. One thing led to another and wound up with a business. Anyways, I remember going, and I was talking to a buddy. I was in an apartment at the time, one of my neighbors down the hall, got to be friends with him, and I remember I went into his apartment one day, and he talked about he wanted to become a technology professional. He's like, yeah, yeah, really. I'm thinking technology is the way to go. And I was like, oh, really? And I'm just, you know, whatever, just being me. Why is that? And then he looks at me, well, isn't it obvious, Eli? I love technology. And the thing was, if you went into my apartment, there were five computers that were broken down. There were a couple of servers in the corner. Right? My dining room table was pushed up against the wall, and shit was ripped apart on it, and servers were running, all that kind of stuff. That was my apartment. And I look around this guy's apartment, and he had like Gundam Armor figurines on his bookshelves. He had like the high-end Transformers.

He had manga books up there. And it was like, yeah, this isn't technology. This is toys. This is fucking toys. There's a difference between the two. And what I feel like, again, and the guy was a good, good, smart guy. He just didn't quite grasp what I did in life. Anyways, and I think that's the problem. The problem is people associate toys with the technology, and those just aren't the same. One of the big problems that we're getting into right now is, is again, so much of the narrative that we're seeing around artificial intelligence really revolves back to when Gen Xers were kids in the 1980s, and the things we really cared about in the 1980s. And that's the thing, right? You're a kid, and you dream about a future, and at some point you become a gazillionaire, apparently. I'm not one of those yet. And you have enough money to make the future a reality. And what I really feel like now, right? Whether you look at Elon Musk, or whether you look at Sam Altman, or whatever, like when we hear what's coming out of artificial intelligence, when we hear these storylines, when we hear the press releases and all that kind of stuff, what I really feel like is coming out of these people is it some kind of really bad shadow run novel that they dug out of a box from the 1980s, and not really anything to do with the actual technology stack. And so that's what becomes really interesting nowadays. Again, like I think about this, like we talk about artificial general intelligence. So we talk about artificial general intelligence that is supposed to be a replacement for human beings. There's artificial narrow intelligence. So think about being able to drive a vehicle, run a robot, that type of thing. It's narrow, it can do a specific thing. General intelligence is kind of like human. Again, it's supposed to be a human replacement. And one of the things I think about when I think about AGI is how we think about VR. Again, also being a kid of the 1980s, remember when Lawn Mower Man was in the movie theaters? Remember when we thought that was good CGI? Look at the CGI, it's amazing. Anyway, don't I remember? I remember Johnny Mnemonic. Johnny Mnemonic. I literally used to have the VHS tape of Johnny Mnemonic. It was like the only tape I owned. I watched it every single night. Anyways, there's this idea of what we thought VR was going to be like, VR.