Alex Imas

of thinking like, maybe we can do something much more general than that.

Maybe we can kind of come back to this idea of AGI versus these very specific tools.

So then the whole term AGI, the general part of it, the reason that term came out was because in response to these very specific technologies that were being developed, which were by design, not general.

So somebody said, Shane Legg was one of the people who kind of, I think coined the term.

He was saying, look,

let's think about the general part of intelligence and let's try to build a technology that is as general as the human mind.

I mean, even though many people were talking about this, that this vibe ship was going to happen.

People were telegraphing it for months and months.

Look, when agents start taking off, things are gonna change as far as how people perceive this technology.

Because the thing about agents versus just like the web-based browsers, they can do stuff.

On your computer, they can say like, you could tell it like, look, make me a spreadsheet.

It will go and make you a spreadsheet using the tools that are available in your computer.

Not just say, okay, here is how you would make a spreadsheet, but you have to do it yourself.

And that's a paradigm shift as far as the economics of the technology.

So I definitely think there is one.

There's a very nice survey done by a whole team of people.

Kevin Bryan was one of them, and Basil Halpern was another.

And they released this survey where they asked for forecasts from economists and AI technologists.

Now, this is a self-selected group of economists.

These are economists who are working on AI, so it's not the whole field.