August 26, 2025
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34 min 3 sec
AI Summer School #4: Chill Out About AGI
Aboard uses AI to help build software, but in just a few years, AI will gain sentience and take over our work, personal lives, and even brains—just kidding! Yes, the fourth and final installment of “AI Summer School” is about AGI, or “Artificial Generalized Intelligence.” What does it mean? Can anyone agree on a definition? And if no one can define it or agree on those definitions, what’s the likelihood that all these Silicon Valley AGI predictions will come true?
Show Notes
- Our previous installments: “How LLMs (Don’t) Think,” “Call My Agents,” and “From Agents to Apps.”
- Paul’s 2016 piece on Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence in the MIT Technology Review.
- Paul also recently wrote about the book he references in the episode, Karen Hao’s Empire of AI.
Transcript
Transcript coming soon!