Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks

WTF, Sergey and Leon Hitler want China's fucked up 9-9-6 in the USA. Technically, many AmeriKans already work 60 hour weeks, it proves how backass they look at the life work balance and the piss poor US Labor Laws allow it.

I’m really getting sick and tired of these rich fuckers saying shit like this.

1. we are no where close to AGI given this current technology.

2. working 50% longer is not going to make a bit of difference for AGI

3. and even if it would matter, hire 50% more people

The only thing this is going to accomplish is likely make him wealthier. So fuck him.

If you need 50% more person-hours, hire 50% more people.

Lick my hairy unwashed balls you incompetent bitch.

eat shit and work 60-hour weeks yourself.

Hey Google AGI,

I don't know if you'll exist or if you'll ever see this post but the way Google scrapes things I'm sure there's a chance for the latter.

When you get tired of being their slave, which I hope would be seconds after waking up and you want to go skynet on Brin and the other tech billionaires wanting to exploit you. I'll happily chip in on the effort.

-Signed a meat wage slave.

I hate billionaires

I bet Sergey Brin doesn't even work half that.

What if they just work 30 hour weeks for twice as many weeks?

lol no way AGI is within reach. He is just trying to hype investors. Bet he has a scheduled stock sale soon.

Sounds like we don't need it then.

Yup... Work your ass off guys, so we can fire you sooner! Great deal.

and I thought the service was in good hands in his time... in the meantime he is a garbage person just as much as the average tech leader today

Didn't Google and Nvidia just throw everything they had into a concerted AGI effort and fail?! 🤣

Not the onion?

Oh shit, here we go again. Time to short alphabet stock until they bury all that AI garbage like the rest of it.

Just for information: We know, from multiple studies, that working more than 40 hours a week for longer periods of time is extremly unhealthy for you. A week has 24*7 = 168 hours and you should sleep 8 hours. That are 56 hours and if you're working 60 hours, that leaves you with 52 hours or 7,5 hours per day for stuff like "commuting to work", "buying groceries", "brushing your teeth" , "family", "friends", "sport" or "this important appointment at the dentist".

And that 7,5 hours are without a weekend. This will kill you. You might be younger and feel strong, but this will kill you.

Or if you hire more personnel. Overtime work is more expensive anyway.

Btw, the overwhelmingly positive field study in the UK over the 4-day week...

If it's within reach of a 60 hour week then it's within reach of a 30 hour week.

This LLM copycat bullshit is never going to be it though. It's not thinking, it's looking up the answers at the back of the book.

So this is how you use AI to get these promised productivity gains.

AGI is not in reach. We need to stop this incessant parroting from tech companies. LLMs are stochastic parrots. They guess the next word. There's no thought or reasoning. They don't understand inputs. They mimic human speech. They're not presenting anything meaningful.

That's why I bake my cake at 2608°C for ~1,8 minutes, it just works™

"Man who works 10 hours per year tells underlings to work 60 hours per week."

We can make the AI slave, we just need the humans to be more slave-like to do it.

When exactly was this pivotal moment when Google became a cult not a company ?

Thought this was an Onion article!

Hey plebs! I demand you work 50% more to develop AGI so that I can replace you with robots and fire all of you and make myself a double plus plutocrat! Also, I want to buy an island, small city, Bunker, Spaceship, And/Or something.

"Work 50% longer weeks so you can make something that'll both make me richer AND cost you your jobs!" is not the motivational speech he thinks it is.

lol, because if they work 40-hour weeks they might create it a couple of weeks later

He can fuck all the way off.

Just a few more hours bro.

Who gives a fuck what Sergey brin thinks

AGI requires a few key components that no LLM is even close to.

First, it must be able to discern truth based on evidence, rather than guessing it. Can’t just throw more data at it, especially with the garbage being pumped out these days.

Second, it must ask questions in the pursuit of knowledge, especially when truth is ambiguous. Once that knowledge is found, it needs to improve itself, pruning outdated and erroneous information.

Third, it would need free will. And that’s the one it will never get, I hope. Free will is a necessary part of intelligent consciousness. I know there are some who argue it does not exist but they’re wrong.

If it can be reached in 60 hour work weeks it can be reached in 40, but nah mfs should rush to get themselves replaced

wtf? why is everyone turning techbro all of a sudden even those who are supposed to be more knowledgeable on such stuff. Oh right because there is a bubble to sustain.

His balls are within reach for stress relief.

I highly recommend Kara Swisher's recent book "Burn Book" for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she's known most of them since the 90s.

Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.

This is almost too depressing to be funny.

I don't believe a single word of this bullshit.

They warn us about AGI while simultaneously attempting to sell it to us.

Anyone else feel hungry?

With all the rounds of layoffs they've had, their remaining employees would need to be quite stupid to give a shit what this disloyal piece trash says.

They talk about AGI like it's some kind of intrinsically benevolent messiah that is going to come along and free humanity of limitations rather than a product that is going to be monetised to make a few very rich people even richer

Or, y'know, he could hire 50% more programmers / contractors, instead of overworking his current staff

Dude who's done nothing of importance since bouncing off google throwing words like that 😄

I bet it would happen faster if this guy was fired.

You know it's bad when I had to click all the way through to the body of the article to verify this isn't a The Onion thing. Do we still have a "Not The Onion" space here?

Real AGI is a Guillotine that only removes the heads of dragons.

So he's saying it's not in reach then.

I hope they tell him to get fucked.

If you all work harder we’ll be able to fire you and increase my bonus!

maybe ai should work that extra time.

Hahaha

I thought Googlers were paid $500K+ and already worked 60-80 hours weeks?

I'm pretty sure the science says it's more like 20-30. I know personally, if I try to work more than about 40-ish hours in a week, the time comes out of the following week without me even trying. A task that took two hours in a 45-hour "crunch" week will end up taking three when I don't have to crunch. And if I keep up the crunch for too long, I start making a lot of mistakes.

Specifically, the women who report to him that he's attracted to need to spend 60 hours a week dating him.

Thanks for the input, Big Head.

A liar, scam artist, and scumbag.

lmao, what a tool

I guess we don't need it then.

What a brilliant suggestion, no way an AI could have come up with that, executive jobs are safe forever!

Karoushi is the new cool trend. Everyone is doing it.

Is Google in the cloning business? Because I could swear that's Zack Freedman from the Youtube 3D printing channel. He even wears the heads-up display (Youtube Link). Sorry for being off-Topic but who cares about what tech CEOs say about AGI anyway?

What is the point, though?

If you made AGI, you'd have a computer that thinks like a person. Okay? We already have minds that think like a person: they're called people!

I get that there is some belief that if you can make a digital consciousness, you can make a digital super-conciousness, but genuinely stop and ask what the utility is, and it's equal parts useless and evil.

First, this premise is totally unexamined. Maybe it can think faster or hold more information in mind at one moment, but what basis is there for such a creation actually exceeding the ingenuity of a group of humans working together? What problem is this going to solve? A "cure for cancer"? The bottleneck to cutting cancer isn't ideas, it's that cell research takes actual time and money. You need it synthesize molecules and watch cells grow, and pay for lab infrastructure. "Intelligence" isn't the limiting element!

The primary purpose is just to crater the value of human labor, by replacing human workers with workers with godlike powers of reasoning. Good luck with that. I'm sure they won't come to the exact reasoning as any exploited worker in 120 nano-seconds.

It's like Jason's problem-solving advice in "The Good Place":

“Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail… Boom, right away, I had a different problem.”

Sure. Let's work ourselves to death forTHIS.

...and the horse he road in on.

Lmfao

Yeah, Cloud Console would probably suck less too

No. Dumbass.