{"id":2174,"date":"2024-12-05T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:51:30","slug":"elevating-humanity-openais-narrative-for-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2024\/12\/05\/elevating-humanity-openais-narrative-for-agi\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevating humanity \u2013 OpenAI’s narrative for AGI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Regarding the timeframe for achieving and qualifying Artificial General Intelligence<\/strong> (AGI), recently (December 4, 2024) on CNBC, Andrew Ross Sorkin<\/a> interviewed Sam Altman<\/strong>, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI<\/strong>, at the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Altman said that quite capable AI agents (able to choreograph complex processes) will become available for businesses in a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder how this might reshape individual merit [1] and trust in the workplace. And when AGI (whatever the scope) arrives, \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 CNBC > “OpenAI’s Sam Altman on launching GPT4<\/a>” \u2013 Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, discusses the release of ChatGPT (12-4-2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Verge > “Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI<\/a>” by Alex Heath (Dec 4, 2024) \u2013\u00a0OpenAI’s charter once said that AGI will be able to “automate the great majority of intellectual labor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearly two years ago, OpenAI said that artificial general intelligence \u2014 the thing the company was created to build \u2014 could “elevate humanity<\/em>” and “give everyone incredible new capabilities<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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. “And a lot of the safety concerns that we and others expressed actually don’t come at the AGI moment. AGI can get built, the world mostly goes on in mostly the same way, things grow faster, but then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call super intelligence<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We at The Verge have heard OpenAI intends to weave together its large language models and declare that to be AGI.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[1] The Aristocracy of Talent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 there is one idea that still commands widespread enthusiasm: that an individual’s position in society should depend on his or her combination of ability and effort. Meritocracy<\/strong>, a word invented as recently as 1958 by the British sociologist Michael Young, is the closest thing we have today to a universal ideology. \u2013 Wooldridge, Adrian. The Aristocracy of Talent<\/strong>: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (2021) (p. 1). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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