Sam Altman says he's confident OpenAI can now build and deploy AGI - artificial general intelligence

[Shawn Knight]

Forward-looking: OpenAI was founded in December 2015 with a simple, yet ambitious goal: create a "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI) system that is generally smarter than humans. With the calendar having recently rolled over to 2025, the company is closer than ever to achieving its original vision and believes it'll happen sooner than later.

Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said in a recent blog post that when they started the company, they believed not only that AGI was possible, but that it could become the most impactful technology in human history.

Few people cared at the time, Altman recounted, and most that did care simply thought they would fail. Everything changed with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, however. To their surprise, the launch proved to be a tipping point that kicked off the modern AI revolution – for better or for worse.

Things haven't been easy or smooth (nothing difficult ever is), but the team has learned an awful lot along the way. As we enter 2025, Altman and company are confident they know how to build AGI as it is traditionally defined as. In fact, it's possible that we may see the first AI agents "join the workforce" and start helping companies write the next chapter of their journey this year.

With AGI right around the corner, OpenAI is already turning its attention to what's next. "We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future," Altman said. That next step, he said, is superintelligence – and with it, we can do anything.

Superintelligence could rapidly accelerate scientific discover, and pave the way for innovation far beyond what humans can accomplish on their own. Altman teased that such tools could massively increase abundance and prosperity. It sounds like science fiction right now, he admitted, but they've been there before and they are comfortable with being there again. He is also well aware that they'll need to act with great care to prevent things from going off the rails (or worse), but they are up for the challenge.

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Sam Altman says he's confident OpenAI can now build and deploy AGI - artificial general intelligence

 

[psycros]

Ah, man-made nightmares beyond my comprehension.

 

[AlexIL]

That guy was also sure his product won’t change society as it does. Greedy *******.

 

[TheBigT42]

How many movies have shown that this is a bad idea?

 

[NumberNine]

Public perception of OpenAI would improve over time if Sam would just stop talking.

 

[yRaz]

Public perception of OpenAI would improve over time if Sam would just stop talking.

It's part of his marketing strategy. He wants venture capital investor money so he needs to talk about how extreme AI is gonna be and how only he can control it.

 

[toooooot]

Depends on what exactly it means. I think, the closest we get to this thing able to at least with 100% realism mimic human, the more we will argue what exactly it means.
Having witnessing robots that can act like humans or humanoid robots would be fun, though.
A;though, I feel like it will be forever before they can get realistic expression and body language.

 

[brunocasarini]

Sam Altman is a megalomaniac.

 

[Dr Roboto]

I just watched "The Creator" (2023) on Prime last night. Give it a watch if you are interested in GAI + Robots. It resonates pretty well with Altman's vision of the future.

 

[AlexIL]

I just watched "The Creator" (2023) on Prime last night. Give it a watch if you are interested in GAI + Robots. It resonates pretty well with Altman's vision of the future.

At this point our most realistic future is Horizon Zero Dawn.

 

[VariableSpike]

We have automated writing algorithms at the moment, how do they even expect to have any form of AGI? Nonsense for investors...

 

[Angga B]

The moment they (human playing god) realized that AI, AGI, whatever mumbo jumbo names they badge it, behave erroneously eerie and refusing the shutdown, "it" already secure it's various forks, in various mediums, in various places including in the most remote and unexpected locations on earth. Even beyond.

 

[jeffbert]

I would think/hope that any such creation would have a simple logic circuit (as opposed to AI / kokoro) to inhibit its acting hostile to humans. Or even wishing it could.

I recall the new (1990s) OUTER LIMITS had a story about guys hunting humanoid robots, & the grandpa had left instructions on how to defeat the inhibitor circuits, because the thrill was less, when the robots could not harm humans / fight back, etc. He got his wish, though regretted it.

 

[Northy]

And someone is going to set it free and then we are all going to die.
Thank you science.

 

[Endymio]

How many movies have shown that this is a bad idea?

Movies are fiction, you realize that right?

 

[TheBigT42]

Movies are fiction, you realize that right?

You understand jokes right?

 

[Angga B]

Movies are fiction, you realize that right?

At the rate of how it's going, nope. Movies had been designed to preadapt you, desensitize you, of many upcoming heinous things so when the time come you already has been quite accustomed and thus embrace them with open arms.