AGI Beyond the Buzz: What Is It, and Are We Ready?

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What does it mean to ‘feel the AGI?’ In this episode, Aza and Randy unpack why debates on intelligence distract us from urgently needed conversations about governance, incentives, and readiness—before the AGI wave crashes ashore.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Azaraskin and welcome to your undivided attention. There's a question
0:10.0	that you'll hear a lot around Silicon Valley these days. Can you feel the AGI? AGI is, of course,
0:17.4	artificial general intelligence, and while there are many different definitions,
0:21.9	and people actually fight a lot over the definition
0:24.2	because it turns out there's a lot at stake,
0:26.8	you could still broadly understand AGI
0:29.9	as the ability for an AI to replace human beings behind a screen.
0:36.2	That is, if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an
0:41.0	AI, well, that's what AGI is. But what does it mean to feel the AGI? It means to feel the weight of
0:51.5	the massive wave coming over the horizon and heading towards us.
0:56.9	It's to take seriously the idea that AGI or something even more powerful is coming and soon.
1:04.0	Now, timelines vary. Sam Altman has said something like AGI could be built this year.
1:09.1	Anthropics Dario Amadei says next year, Demis Sissabas
1:12.3	of Google Deepvine gives it five to ten years. And in a recent blog post, the former
1:18.1	open AI researcher and now whistleblower Daniel Kokotelo predicts that we will have superhuman
1:23.7	intelligence by 2027. My guess is 2026, 27. Now, this can all feel like science fiction,
1:30.6	but we're living at a time when things that felt like science fiction just become real.
1:36.9	You know, I'm the co-founder of Earth Species Project, and we are using frontier AI to decode
1:42.1	animal communication, animal language, and we believe that'll
1:45.9	happen before 2030. So we have to take this all seriously. But it's also critical that we can
1:53.2	distinguish hype from the raw facts from knee-jerk skepticism. So to do that, I've invited back CHT co-founder Randy Fernando,
2:03.6	who spent years at NVIDIA and has been tracking this space deeply from a technical perspective.
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