Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’
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Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia received the ACM Prize in Computing and argued that AGI already exists but should not be measured by human standards.Summary
Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia has been named the 2026 recipient of the prestigious ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational work on Apache Spark. Zaharia, who also teaches at UC Berkeley, emphasizes that AGI has already arrived, though he warns against evaluating AI models based on human standards. He highlights the security risks of anthropomorphizing AI agents, like the potential for unauthorized access in tools designed to mimic human assistants. Looking ahead, Zaharia is particularly optimistic about using AI to automate and scale complex research and engineering tasks, rather than simply focusing on general human-like interaction.
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