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Sam lowered the bar for AGI

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OpenAI’s Vision of Automated Artificial Intelligence (OpenAI): Status, Outlook, and Perspectives for the Next Five to Ten Years

This isn’t the first time Altman has downplayed the now-seemingly-imminent arrival of AGI, which OpenAI’s charter once said will be able to “automate the great majority of intellectual labor.” He has said that it can be achieved on existing hardware. We at The Verge have heard OpenAI intends to weave together its large language models and declare that to be AGI.

At the DealBook Summit, Altman said that the definition of AGI was less grand than in the past. “I expect the economic disruption to take a little longer than people think because there’s a lot of inertia in society,” he said. “So, in the first couple of years, maybe not that much changes. And then maybe a lot changes.”

Evidence shows that progress will likely continue. There is not a lot of proof to the contrary. We might not need new ideas to get to AGI-level systems. I’m quite optimistic that the progress will continue.”

Why Did I Leave OpenAI? A Conversation with Sally Murati on AI Development in Los Alamos and Other Non-Profitting Organizations

Murati didn’t publicly specify why she left OpenAI other than to say the moment felt right to pursue personal exploration. Dozens of early OpenAI employees have left the nonprofit in recent years, some over their frustration with Altman’s increasing focus on generating revenue over pursuing purely academic research. There is a lot of obsession over departures and not enough on the substance ofAI development according to Murati.

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