✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-12-27
This week, I explore the puzzling mix of AGI hype and revenue metrics in tech news.
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The tech news story that caught my eye this week was the conflation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with…
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A seemingly arbitrary amount of revenue?
Techmeme: An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
By Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.
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