Sam Altman reaffirms OpenAI’s work towards superintelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman marks ChatGPT’s second anniversary by posting a blog titled “Reflections.”
“The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning.”
Nowadays, Altman and his team are going full steam ahead in developing artificial general intelligence or AGI.
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reflections: https://t.co/rHdE40AuOG
— Sam Altman (@sama) January 6, 2025
Artificial general intelligence or AGI is a technology that can fully replicate human behavior and mental capabilities.
Sam Altman believes his company is getting closer to developing it, so he posted “Reflections” to look at his company’s progress.
“We started OpenAI almost nine years ago because we believed that AGI was possible and that it could be the most impactful technology in human history,” Altman said.
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In 2022, OpenAI was working on “Chat With Chat-3.5.
On November 30, 2022, the AI firm “ended up mercifully calling it ChatGPT instead” and launched it.
Surprisingly, even Altman didn’t expect the rapid exponential growth of the AI chatbot, so he struggled in growing OpenAI:
“Building up a company at such high velocity with so little training is a messy process… Moving at speed in uncharted waters is an incredible experience, but it is also immensely stressful…”
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Nevertheless, Altman believes that “the best way to make an AI system safe is by iteratively and gradually releasing it into the world.”
Meanwhile, AI agents will likely “join the workforce and materially change the output of companies in 2025.
Soon, superintelligence will “massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation… and in turn, massively increase abundance and prosperity.”
Altman believes these ideas “sound like science fiction right now.” Nonetheless, he’s confident will everyone will “see what we see” in the next few years.
