"I'll believe in AGI when VCs retire because AI does their job better"
generativist · x · 2026-09-07
A widely shared post proposes a folk test for AGI: it will have arrived only when every VC publicly announces they are retiring because AI is better at their job than they are. The quip highlights how many investors claim AGI will transform everything while never expecting to be replaced themselves.
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