Strictly From Nowhere: A Podcast Experiment by Cause of a Kind AGI: The Biggest Grift In History | Episode #037
What is your measurement of useful?
Mike and I tackle the AGI conversation. Not the hype. Not the grand promises. The actual question of whether artificial general intelligence will be useful or just another technology that sounds impressive but doesn't solve real problems.
This episode started with a simple question. What makes software useful? Building something for yourself doesn't mean it's useful for anyone else. The market is flooded with applications that don't provide real value. So when we talk about AGI, we need to ask what problem it actually solves.
AI is changing how software is developed and who can create it. But AGI's potential raises bigger questions. If we build it, what does it do that's actually valuable? Where does human creativity and intuition fit when machines can generate solutions faster than we can evaluate them?
The journey from idea to useful product involves marketing, customer engagement, and proving value. AGI doesn't solve that. It just changes the shape of the problem.
Shout out to Keith Vance for inspiring this conversation: https://www.linkedin.com/in/halfstop/
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Surviving the Snowstorm
01:56 - Defining Useful Software
05:33 - Criteria for Software Usefulness
09:23 - Building Software for Profit
12:55 - The Role of AI in Software Development
15:36 - The Limits of AI and Human Creativity
18:44 - The Promise of AGI
21:21 - The Limitations of Current AI
24:34 - The Nature of Discovery and Knowledge
28:23 - The Philosophical Implications of AGI
33:53 - Defining Usefulness in Technology
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