The Great A.I. Awakening
Sundar seems very confused here. The idea that we should invent AGI to make &quot;personal digital assistants&quot; is like Hogwarts students inventing time machines so they can take two classes at once. I mean, yes, it would technically enable you to do that, but it doesn&#x27;t matter because at that point you have way, way bigger problems. If a fleet of alien spaceships arrived in the sky over Manhattan tomorrow, our first reaction would not be &quot;oh, now the aliens can be our personal digital assistants!&quot; (or, for that matter, &quot;they might take our jobs!&quot;). Yet the invention of general AI would be even more powerful than that. It would be like enabling any programmer in the world to summon a personal fleet of alien spaceships, on command, from a planet of their choosing anywhere in the universe. &quot;Digital assistants&quot; would be the absolute last thing anyone had on their mind.