Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi shared that while the industry is fixated on superintelligence, building systems to outsmart the world's brightest minds isn't what companies actually need. Organizations want to build AI agents to support and automate everyday tasks – and we already have everything we need to do that today. Business Insider has the full story: https://lnkd.in/gMMUirK4
Can someone send me his contact info? I’ve a bridge I wanna sell him ;-) AGI is not here. Anyone who has used an LLM knows that. Unless he’s speaking about some yet unseen model that’s skynet level good
It’s easy to chase huge ideas, but the real headache for most teams is getting simple AI agents to handle day-to-day work without breaking things. When companies skip that part, they end up with confused users and noisy systems that never deliver steady value. Databricks focusing on practical agents makes sense to me, and I’ve seen in my own LLM workflow work that reliable basics matter more than flashy goals. Curious how Databricks sees this play out with real customers.
AGI is not already here, another CEO making hyped up claims for there own benefit. It’s kind of getting boring now.
"Organizations want to build AI agents to support and automate everyday tasks – and we already have everything we need to do that today." Indeed, so true. Love the Databricks platform, just for this: Data, Governance, Model access (open and closed), Deployment, Infra, Apps, and Evals are all there in one platform. Best platform to build on. Omar Khattab (creator of DSPy) said it best recently: We don't need AGI, we need API, programable intelligence. Intelligence that works for and with an organization's data and Databricks is a great platform for that. You have the data and you can 'program' the intelligence.
The shift Ali describes is exactly what we’re seeing across the ecosystem, AI becomes transformative when it operates where the data already lives. That foundation is what enables enterprises to move from isolated AI tools to fully autonomous workflows. Big step forward for the lakehouse community!
Liar or fool. AGI it is not. AI as we know it is a valuable tech that will transform society, culture, business and even governments. More akin to the latent impacts of the printing press and even the bernouli effect (sailor's upwind tack and aviation's lift from a foil). History will inform us after the fact, but not soon.
Spot on Databricks. The real disruption happens when the cost of intelligence becomes negligible. Shifting focus from model training to high-volume inference is exactly where the ROI lives. Great vision.
the real unlock for enterprises is not superintelligence, but it is reliable AI agents that automate decisions and workflows. Most of the value comes from connecting data → models → actions, and not chasing AGI benchmarks.