Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst says throwing more computing power at large-language models (LLMs) won’t necessarily get the world any closer to so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI).

On the 20VC podcast , hosted by Harry Stebbings, Frosst took a contrarian spin on industry hype around AGI. The computer scientist and indie musician called out OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for both touting the technology’s power and raising concerns about its potential threat to humanity.

Frosst doesn’t believe that pure scaling could create AGI, a nebulous concept which he defines as “treating a computer like a person.”

“I think that was academically disingenuous and did a disservice to the technology he loves,” Frosst said.

Frosst has rejected the notion that AI models pose an existential threat to hu

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