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Andrew Ng: AGI 'Decades Away' — Agentic Workflow Automation Is the Actual Near-Term Value, Not Human-Level Intelligence
In a March 2026 Fast Company interview, Ng pushed back against compressed AGI timelines, arguing the industry's near-term value is in agentic systems that automate specific workflows — not in human-level general intelligence. He highlighted that 56% of CEOs in a 2026 PwC survey reported neither revenue gains nor cost reductions from AI investments, framing it as a deployment and integration gap rather than a model capability gap. Ng's position: the useful horizon is agentic automation in the next 2-5 years, not AGI in the next 1-3.
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