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Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

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"“Yeah, it’s not a little human there,” he says.

As a professor and product engineer, Zaharia is most excited about how AI can help automate research on everything from biology experiments to data compilation.

Just like how vibe coding made prototyping and programming accessible to anyone, he thinks that accurate, no-hallucinations AI-powered research will someday become universal.

“Not that many people need to build applications, but lots of people need to understand information,” he said. Eventually we’ll make AI work better for us by having it lean into its strengths: telling us what every rattle in our car means, or scanning beyond text and images to include radio and microwaves, or, what he’s seeing students do now, simulate molecular-level changes and predict their effectiveness.

“The thing that I’m most excited about is what I’d call AI for search, but specifically for research or engineering,” he said."

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/databricks-matei-zaharia-wins-acm-computing-prize-agi/
 
If we find a way to control it, this indeed could be an enlightening time. A Star Trek tricorder that can understand and unravel things with simple commands. Unlocking the genome/epigenome to make people live forever and end cancer! Nuclear fusion, faster than light travel - all possible with increasingly more knowledgeable AI!

On the other hand, as many prominent AI pioneers have pointed out, if we enable it to have the ability to do research on bioengineering, what's to stop it from building a virus that wipes out humanity? It may see people as a no more intelligent than an ant, that it can do with as it wants.

Never feed it the script to any Matrix movie, Terminator movie or 2001 A Space Odysey, etc.
"You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.” -The Matrix
 
Anyone in the AI business who says AGI is here is a liar and a grifter. Outside the business world, they're probably just clueless.
 
DouglasteR said:
Well, they always had the best gear.
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Offtopic, but a little chat about STALKER is always nice, so I'll just say - by then I had the VSS Vintorez!
That, an exoskeleton, and a full set of loot carry increase+anti-rad artifacts, and I was tanking!
Edit: And those guys had actual AI!
 
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