Date:
January 06, 2025
Right after the second birthday month of ChatGPT, Sam Altman penned down his reflections on how OpenAI has evolved so far.
Sam Altman recently revealed that OpenAI knows how to build Artificial General Intelligence. In a personal blog, OpenAI’s CEO said that he aims to turn the company’s efforts towards developing superintelligence. Sam penned down some critical statements that indicate efforts toward building a glorious future.
“Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity,” said Altman in his personal blog.
According to Altman, Superintelligence is a few thousand days away and will make an appearance more intense than people think. Open AI defines AGI as ‘highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”
OpenAI’s biggest investor and collaborator, Microsoft, defines AGI as ‘AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. When OpenAI achieves this, Microsoft will lose access to its technology, per an agreement between the two companies.’
Moving deeper into AGI, Altman thinks that AI agents may soon join the workforce and materially change the output of companies this year. “We continue to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to great, broadly distributed outcomes,” he wrote.
The existing challenges faced by AI development companies include hallucinations, mistakes, inaccuracies, and misunderstanding of complex contexts. While Altman strongly believes that all of these hurdles can be overcome as AI evolves, he also believes that no defined timeline can be set for these tasks.
“We’re pretty confident that in the next few years, everyone will see what we see and that the need to act with great care while still maximizing broad benefit and empowerment is so important. Given the possibilities of our work, OpenAI cannot be a normal company. How lucky and humbling it is to be able to play a role in this work,” he said.
The way artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving into an advanced technology, the tech companies that hold exclusive rights and first-mover advantages will likely become the next big visionary name for at least a decade. However, superintelligence, according to Sam Altman, is a highly probable world that is far from guaranteed.
