New OpenAI Model Passes AGI Threshold

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that “AGI” (artificial general intelligence) “has become a bad term.”

In a long interviews with Bloomberg News published on Sunday (Jan. 5), he discussed his company’s past, as well as its plans for achieving an AI-related benchmark: artificial intelligence that can think and reason at or above human level.

“If you look at our levels, our five levels, you’ll find people calling each one AGIright?” Altman said. “And the hope of the levels is to have a more specific basis of where we are and like how to progress, than it is AGI, or is it not AGI?”

Later in the conversation, Altman pointed to something called the ARC-AGI challenge, which he called “a North Star toward AGI.”

the new AI model OpenAI plans to introduce on Friday (Jan. 10) will go through this challenge, which requires a model that relies more on reason than on data training to achieve AGI.

“They say if you score 85% on it, we’ll consider it a ‘pass,'” Altman said. “And our system—with no routine work, out of the box—got 87.5%. And we have excellent research and better models to come. “

Asked about the future Trump administrationAltman said the “infrastructure the US is building and lots of it” is the most helpful thing the White House can do for AI this year.

“The thing I agree with the president about the most is, it’s wild how hard it is to build things in the United States,” he said. “Power plants, data centers, any kind of thing. understand how the bureaucratic cruft is built, but it doesn’t help the country as a whole.

Altman also spoke about his short – but high profile – dismissal as the head of the company in November of 2023, acknowledged that the experience traumatized him, leaving him depressed even after he returned.

“And it feels unfair. It’s just a crazy thing to have to go through and then not have time to recover, because the house is on fire,” he said.

In May of last year, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner said that Altman was fired because the board can’t believe it what the CEO said about it.

He said the board learned about ChatGPT’s launch after the fact, that Altman did not disclose his involvement in the company’s startup funding, and that Altman repeatedly gave the board inaccurate information about the formality. company’s safety process.