VentureBeat January 6, 2025
Much like how 2024 ended in New York City, the 2025 AI news cycle has started off with a thunderclap.
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman took to his personal blog yesterday (January 5) to belatedly commemorate the second anniversary of ChatGPT (which launched in November 2022) and offer a series of “Reflections” on progress toward OpenAI’s stated goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) — the company defines this as “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans” — and later, superintellignence, AI systems even smarter than that.
Among the eye-popping statements Altman writes in his post are: “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.”
Altman didn’t put a timeline...
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