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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a podcast appearance<\/a> Monday he believed artificial general intelligence, a loosely defined term used to describe AI that matches or surpasses human intelligence, has been achieved, saying it’s possible full-fledged companies could be run by AI.<\/p>\n Huang made the comments during a podcast appearance.<\/p>\n Photo by JOSH EDELSON \/ AFP via Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n Huang, speaking on computer scientist Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast, said, \u201cI think it\u2019s now. I think we\u2019ve achieved AGI,\u201d when asked by Fridman how long it would take to clear the benchmark.<\/p>\n Huang\u2019s comment appeared to concern the larger AI industry, not specifically Nvidia, the world\u2019s most valuable company propelled by the surge in AI usage among consumers and businesses alike.<\/p>\n Fridman asked if a company could be operated by AGI, to which Huang said \u201cpossible,\u201d noting OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform designed to run autonomously on the behalf of a user (OpenClaw is in the process of being acquired by OpenAI).<\/p>\n Contra<\/p>\n Huang later noted, \u201cA lot of people use it for a couple of months and it kind of dies away,\u201d saying the odds of AI agents \u201cbuilding Nvidia is 0%.\u201d<\/p>\n Tangent<\/p>\n Nvidia shares closed up 1.5% on Monday, though the AI darling\u2019s stock is still down nearly 6% on the year.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n High-level AGI is expected to be able to do things like run organizations or make strategic decisions usually left to humans, with critics raising concerns over the benchmark\u2019s possible harms to public health, human jobs and more<\/a>. The loose definition around AGI has made it difficult to pin down a trustworthy timeline for its creation and widespread use. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Forbes<\/a> last month, \u201cWe basically have built AGI, or very close to it,\u201d saying in a follow-up comment that his statement was a \u201cspiritual\u201d one and not literal, adding AGI will need \u201ca lot of medium-sized breakthroughs,\u201d as opposed to a singular, large one. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave Forbes a different take, saying the industry is not anywhere close to AGI and that, \u201cWe have a good process in place. It\u2019s not about Sam or me declaring it.\u201d <\/p>\n Further Reading<\/p>\n