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The best social media post about AGI that you might have missed

Buzz Andersen’s recent post on Threads about AGI — artificial general intelligence — got a lot of attention, even though he posted it during the slowest week of the year:

Buzz Andersen’s (@ldandersen) post on Threads: “I was talking to one of my old co-workers who works in machine learning for a big tech company awhile back, and when the subject of “AGI” came up, he said something like (and I’m paraphrasing here): “These models require massive infrastructure, enormous amounts of power, and basically the entire Internet as training data. Meanwhile, the human brain learns from the world around it and runs on sandwiches.” I think about that a lot.”
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Here’s the text:

I was talking to one of my old co-workers who works in machine learning for a big tech company awhile back, and when the subject of “AGI” came up, he said something like (and I’m paraphrasing here): “These models require massive infrastructure, enormous amounts of power, and basically the entire Internet as training data. Meanwhile, the human brain learns from the world around it and runs on sandwiches.” I think about that a lot.

Food for though (pun intended).

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