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OpenAI begins 2025 with massive hype for AGI, superintelligence
The AGI and superintelligence hype has hit a fever pitch unlike any I've seen in my 15 years writing about technology.
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. That very same day, OpenAI’s head of mission alignment Joshua Achiam posted on X: “The world isn’t grappling enough with the seriousness of AI and how it will upend or negate a lot of the assumptions many seemingly-robust equilibria are based upon.” The reaction around the web has been a fairly predictable mix of positive and negative, and appears to me to be mostly evenly split between those who embrace OpenAI’s optimistic and seemingly aggressive timeline for the advance of AI in society and those who believe the company is full of it.
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