Jensen Huang Says AGI is Here, and It Can Run Companies Too!
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch, as many still place AGI years away, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues it has already arrived.
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It’s been over three years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, reinventing what technology and AI mean for the world. Since then, experts and tech leaders have been awaiting the next big thing—artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that matches or exceeds human intelligence across the board. Many predict AGI remains at least five years away, yet Nvidia’s Jensen Huang feels it’s already here.
In the latest episode of Lex Fridman’s podcast, Huang was asked by the former about the timeline for AGI’s arrival, asking whether it’s 5 or 20 years away.
”How far are we away from that?” the podcaster questioned, to which the Nvidia chief replied, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
Huang’s AGI claim responds to the definition specifically mentioned by Fridman: “An AI system which can start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth billions of dollars.”
“You’re gonna get a lot of people excited with that statement,” Fridman noted.
On being asked whether he truly believes AI can run a tech company, Huang says, “It’s possible. You said billion, and you didn’t say forever.”
Discussing the same, the two specifically mentioned OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform that has gained widespread popularity in the past few months. “It’s not out of the question that an OpenClaw could create a web service or some interesting little app that, all of a sudden, a few billion people use for 50 cents,” he explained.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if some social thing happened or somebody created a digital influencer, super, super cute, or some social application that feeds your little Tamagotchi or something like that, and it becomes out of the blue an instant success,” he said.
Despite his optimism about the possibilities of such capabilities, Huang eases back on the expectations. “A lot of people use it for a couple of months, and it kind of dies away. Now, the odds of 100,000 of those agents building NVIDIA is zero per cent.”
In March, Nvidia announced NemoClaw, an open-source security and governance framework, to make autonomous AI agents, specifically OpenClaw, safe for business and enterprise use.
