AGI is coming and no one cares

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been saying this for years – years! — that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would be something of a singularity. Altman and others argue that achieving AGI will fundamentally transform society.

On Recent York Times At this week’s DealBook Summit in Recent York, Altman said it doesn’t matter. AGI will be coming soon, he said, but it won’t be a large deal. Also this week: OpenAI kicked off its “12 Days of Ships” campaign with a fresh $200 monthly subscription to its latest model. The stakes are lower, the prices are higher. Strange times in the AI ​​race.

But before we get to AI, Nilay and David spend some time talking about the world of subscriptions. Let’s start with ours! We have launched a subscription for Edge this week and we are grateful to everyone who has signed up to support us and be part of our community. We also thank everyone who provided us with feedback, found bugs, and requested ad-free podcasts. We’re still fresh to this whole subscription thing, but we’re learning quickly. (And if you have questions, you do miniature more time to sign them up for next week’s episode! Please email vergecast@theverge.com or call 866-VERGE11 to accept them.)

The time of AI has finally come. And finally, in a lightning round, we talk about bitcoin, AI browsers, fediverse, Intel, Spotify Wrapped and many others. It may already be December, but there’s still a lot going on.

If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, starting with streaming and cable:

And in the lightning round: