The speaker contrasts two visions of AGI: a single all-powerful model versus many specialized AIs that trade with each other through language. These specialist models could form an economy that eventually dwarfs the human economy, driven by their need to collaborate as they grow smarter but stay limited in what they can hold in mind at once.
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Somebody was telling me today at lunch, they're like, are you like a monotheist or a polytheist on AI? The monotheists would say there's going to be one super intelligence, AGI, to rule them all, and it'll have so much brainpower that it can do everything itself in the world. The polytheists would say each of these models, even as they get smarter and smarter, which they will, they're going to have limited context. So there might be ones that specialize in going really deep into some coding problem or some scientific breakthrough or some design, or maybe even like manufacturing things with humanoid robots. So there'll be lots of specialists and they'll actually have communicate to each other using language, kind of like human beings, there's going to be a whole agentic economy to basically transfer value and payroll and hire these different specialists. And eventually the AI economy will be bigger than the human economy.