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Sam Altman claims superintelligence might only be "a few thousand days" away from OpenAI's doorstep, but there are a lot of details to figure out
By Kevin Okemwa,
2 days ago
What you need to know
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says superintelligence might only be "a few thousand days" away.
Altman claims that AI will get better with scale and will help make meaningful improvements to the lives of people around the world, including fixing the environment, but a lot still needs to be done.
A former OpenAI researcher warned that the firm wouldn't know how to handle AGi and all it entails.
"It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there."
The CEO used the rapid advancement of deep learning and its power in general as the basis for his claims. "That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data)," added Altman. "To a shocking degree of precision, the more compute and data available, the better it gets at helping people solve hard problems."
In the past few months, top officials at the firm have made strong claims about the progression of their AI models and products. While at the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference, OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap indicated :
"In the next couple of 12 months, I think the systems that we use today will be laughably bad. We think we're going to move toward a world where they're much more capable."
While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is focused on achieving superintelligence, he admits it's going to be an uphill task:
"There are a lot of details we still have to figure out, but it’s a mistake to get distracted by any particular challenge. Deep learning works, and we will solve the remaining problems."
And despite the challenges, Altman categorically indicates that AI will get better with scale. Consequently, it will "lead to meaningful improvements to the lives of people around the world," including fixing the climate, the discovery of all of physics, and more.
Elsewhere, OpenAI was recently dragged back to court by Elon Musk over a stark betrayal of its founding mission and alleged racketeering activities. It remains unseen how OpenAI plans to handle the wide array of issues as it edges closer to superintelligence.
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