Public story · 2026-03-15 · source-backed
LeCun: Every Major AI CEO Just Quietly Dropped 'AGI.'
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Altman: "not a super useful term." Amodei: "always disliked it." Nadella: won't happen soon. Benioff: "hypnosis." The same word used to raise hundreds of billions, now abandoned. LeCun frames this as vindication. Threads
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