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Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI


OpenAI used to say that artificial general intelligence would change everything. Not anymore.

Nearly two years ago, OpenAI said that artificial general intelligence — the thing the company was created to build — could “elevate humanity” and “give everyone incredible new capabilities.” “My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it matter much less,” he said during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. Getting out of its profit-sharing arrangement with Microsoft would be a big deal for OpenAI and its ambitions to be the next massive, for-profit tech company.

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