It seems to me that Andrej is predicting how AGI will impact society by extrapolating from the current societal impacts of self driving.
I don’t get the sense he was trying to say that self-driving automation is the exact same as AGI. Mainly that that AGI, like other technologies before it, will displace some jobs and create new ones but this will require companies to figure out how to scale the technology.
I do think this is still very optimistic. If indeed AGIs can think and learn on their own it isn’t hard to envision a future where humans aren’t needed at all in the loop.
I don’t get the sense he was trying to say that self-driving automation is the exact same as AGI. Mainly that that AGI, like other technologies before it, will displace some jobs and create new ones but this will require companies to figure out how to scale the technology.
I do think this is still very optimistic. If indeed AGIs can think and learn on their own it isn’t hard to envision a future where humans aren’t needed at all in the loop.