Recently former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, chastised Silicon Valley for spending billions chasing AGI instead of practical applications of AI.
China’s government agrees and is pushing local usage of AI in practical applications such as grading high-school entrance exams, improving weather forecasts, and advising farmers on crop rotation, not achieving AGI.
Which path will win?
@carnage4life Schmidt was just recently bragging about investing indiscriminately into AI startups to replace programmers, about how agentic AI will change everything and how AI is underhyped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmbO_EA82Qg
The guy is an opportunistic toad, and is the prime example of why CEOs hate programmers https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-04-25-some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others-9acd84d46742
If our media has any sort of memory we wouldn't listen to anything this guy says seriously.
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