Sam Altman says AI agents will enter workforce in 2025, OpenAI confident of achieving AGI

 

Sam Altman says AI agents will enter workforce in 2025, OpenAI confident of achieving AGI

The OpenAI CEO believes iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to broadly-distributed outcomes.

“AI development has taken many twists and turns, and we expect more in the future,” Sam Altman wrote in his blog titled Reflections. The OpenAI CEO, in his thoughtful blog post recounting the AI start-up’s journey and his topsy-turvy years, especially the last two, asserted that the company knows how to build AGI. “Our vision won’t change; our tactics will continue to evolve,” he wrote. 

In his long post, Altman said that in 2025, the world may see the first AI agents, known for autonomously accomplishing tasks, join the workforce and materially change the output of companies’. About the company’s pursuit of artificial general intelligence, he wrote, “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.” The CEO said that he continues to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to broadly-distributed outcomes. 

In his post, Altman discussed the past years as well as what lies ahead for the AI startup. Talking about the company’s goals, Altman said that OpenAI is aiming for superintelligence in the true sense of the word. “We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future. With superintelligence, we can do anything else. Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.”

Superintelligence has been broadly defined as AI agents that could likely outperform human intelligence. It is much similar to how OpenAI describes AGI—systems that are smarter than humans. The company has frequently asserted that its primary goal is to create AGI systems that will benefit all of humanity.

However, Altman has also stated in recent times that AGI may not be what people thought it would be after all. This stand on AGI may benefit OpenAI’s deal with Microsoft, which remains valid till AGI is officially achieved. Microsoft has classified AGI as a system that could potentially generate $100 billion in profits, and this could run contrary to OpenAI’s future strategy. Besides, there are also reports that OpenAI may combine and offer its LLMs as an AGI product to accelerate progress. Regardless, based on Altman’s recent tweet, OpenAI is presently unprofitable. Altman, in his X post, admitted that the company has been losing money even on its $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription. 

While Altman has not divulged details about OpenAI’s profit-sharing arrangement with Microsoft, he recollected his unceremonious sacking over a video call and his subsequent return to the helm in 2023. Altman described the episode as a ‘big failure of governance by well-meaning people, myself included.’ He also wished that he had done things differently. “I’d like to believe I’m a better, more thoughtful leader today than I was a year ago.”

Compiled By Pushpendra Maurya

Profession Data Scientist

Source: The Indian Express

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