While many predict disasters with the arrival of AGI (for Artificial General Intelligence, or Intelligence Artificielle Générale in French), some think of scenarios like Terminator or even i, RobotSam Altman returns to this subject by ultimately making it just one step among others, as recounted The Verge.
If OpenAI is currently the leader in Generative Artificial Intelligence, the goal of its birth has always been the creation of an Artificial General Intelligence, capable of reacting and thinking at the same level or even more than a human, and thus becoming omnipotent. The day this AGI is launched, then many things are set to change, and this future can both fantasize and frighten, dividing the community of researchers in the field of AI as well as the major commercial protagonists involved. in this sector.
But Sam Altman now only sees AGI as an improved version of the current ChatGPT, and prophesies that this new stage will be reached very soon, without fundamentally changing the existence of humanity. Not that he no longer believes in the innovative potential of AI, but he adds a final stage after AGI: “superintelligence” (sic).
According to him, it is this last step which will be able to disrupt everything that humans currently do, for better or for worse. But then, why move the final step from AGI to “superintelligence”?
Rather than a dissertation on the meaning of intelligence, it could be more prosaically a simple story of big money: in fact, the contract linking OpenAI to Microsoft, limiting the creator of ChatGPT in its possibilities of marketing services, would have as an expiry limit the key moment when OpenAI would reach the AGI stage. By reducing the requirements to reach this stage, Sam Altman would therefore bring closer the date when Redmond’s bridle on OpenAI’s neck would be lifted…
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