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Openai CEO Sam Altman said that artificial general intelligence, or “AGI”, loses its relevance as a term, since rapid progress in space complicates the definition of this concept.
AGO refers to the concept of artificial intelligence, which can perform any intellectual task that a person can. Openai has been working on research and developing AGI over the years, which is safe and benefits all humanity.
“I think it’s not a very useful term”, last week Altman said “Squawk Box” CNBC Last Model GPT-5 Moves the world any closer to reaching AGI. Have an entrepreneur Earlier said He believes that AGA can be developed in a “reasonable near future”.
The problem with AGI, according to Altman, is that different companies and individuals use several definitions. One of the definitions is the II, which can do “a significant amount of work in the world”, according to Altman – however, this has problems because the nature of the work is constantly changing.
“I think the point of all this is that it doesn’t matter, and it is just the ongoing exponent of the model, which we will count on more and more things,” Altman said.
Altman is not one in enhancing skepticism regarding “AGA” and how people use this term.
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Nicknarity, Vice -President and AI Practice in The Futurum Group, said CNBC that although AGI is a “fantastic northern star for inspiration”, it is generally not a useful term.
“It determines the financing and fixes the public fantasy, but its vague definition of sci-fi often creates fog of revival, which obscures the real, sensitive progress, which we make in more specialized II,” he said via email.
Openai and other startups have raised billions of dollars and reached high appreciation with the promise that they ended up reaching AI form enough to be considered “AGI”. Openai last appreciated investors in $ 300 billion, and is said to be preparing Selling secondary stock when estimating $ 500 billion.
Last week company released by GPT-5The last big language model for all Chatgpt users. Openai said that the new system is smarter, faster and “much more useful” – especially when it comes to writing, coding and assistance on health requests.
But the launch has led to criticism on the Internet that the long -awaited model was an update that causing only minor improvements to its predecessor.
“This is gradually registered, not revolutionary,” said Vendy Hall, a computer science professor at Southampton University.
AI “must be forced to announce how they evaluate the agreed metric” when launching new products, the Hall added. “At this point it is a wild west for snake oil sellers.”
Distracting attention?
For his part, Altman recognized the new Openai model lacking the sign About your own personal definition of AGI, because the system is not yet able to study on its own.
While Openai is still supporting artificial general intelligence as its final goal, Altman said it was better to talk about the level of progress against this state of general intelligence, not asking whether anything AGI is or not.
“We try to use these different levels … not binary:” Is that AGI, right? “I think it has become too rude when we approach,” Openai CEO said during the conversation At the Finreglab AI symposium in November 2024.
Altman still expects that the II will reach some key breakthroughs in certain fields – for example, new mathematics theorems and scientific discoveries – in the next two years.
“There’s so much exciting things in the real world that I believe that Aga is a little distracted by those who should continue to increase the amazing amount of funding,” said Futurum CNBC patience.
“It is more useful to talk about specific opportunities than this foggy concept of” common “intelligence.
