📱 Sam Altman: "AGI Might Appear in 2025"
Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, gave an interview to Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's largest tech startup incubator.
Altman talked about his first business, the timeline for the emergence of strong artificial intelligence (AGI), and why now is perhaps the best time to launch a technology startup.
Highlights
➡️ In 2005, when I was 19, at Y Combinator, we launched a real-time geolocation sharing service called Loopt. The company didn't do particularly well, but I'm still grateful for that experience. I got to be part of a platform shift: the transition from mobile phones to smartphones — when you started carrying a computer in your pocket.
➡️ Big companies have the edge when things are moving slowly and when technology is developing so rapidly, like right now, it's the best time for startups. With each successive major technological revolution, you've been able to do more than you could before.
➡️ One of the biggest pieces of advice I would give to young people now is finding inspiring people, who believe in you, as early as you can. It was so important to me. And I didn't realize it was something that mattered. I thought I'd figure it out on my own.
➡️ We said from the very beginning we were going to go after AGI. At the time, it just seemed crazy and borderline irresponsible to talk like this. But it got all of the good young people's attention. We managed to gather a talented young team, even though we had fewer resources than DeepMind and other companies.
➡️ I don't rule out AGI coming as early as 2025. We have level-one AI-systems, chatbots. We got to level-two, reasoners, with the GPT-o1 release. Level-three is AI agents' ability to do longer-term tasks like multiple interactions with an environment, asking people for help when they need it, and working together. And I think we're going to get there faster than people expect. Four is innovators, like a scientist with the ability to explore a not well-understood phenomena. Level five is the sort of scale of a whole company that will be a powerful thing.
➡️ We will definitely arrive at abundant sources of energy, even if we don't get a big nuclear breakthrough. It’s just a question of when. It will feel like not nearly enough (of an issue) to our great-grandchildren and there's a big universe out there with a lot of matter.
➡️ There are no "adults in the room" that are going to magically tell you exactly what to do. And you just have to find your way. That was like a big unlock in life for me to understand. And there were many things that we were highly convinced and wrong about.
You can watch the whole interview here.
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🔘 Where did Sam Altman invest almost all of his money?
🔘 AI Trends from Y Combinator Accelerator: Five Startups of the Future
#news #interview @hiaimediaen
Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, gave an interview to Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's largest tech startup incubator.
Altman talked about his first business, the timeline for the emergence of strong artificial intelligence (AGI), and why now is perhaps the best time to launch a technology startup.
Highlights
➡️ In 2005, when I was 19, at Y Combinator, we launched a real-time geolocation sharing service called Loopt. The company didn't do particularly well, but I'm still grateful for that experience. I got to be part of a platform shift: the transition from mobile phones to smartphones — when you started carrying a computer in your pocket.
➡️ Big companies have the edge when things are moving slowly and when technology is developing so rapidly, like right now, it's the best time for startups. With each successive major technological revolution, you've been able to do more than you could before.
➡️ One of the biggest pieces of advice I would give to young people now is finding inspiring people, who believe in you, as early as you can. It was so important to me. And I didn't realize it was something that mattered. I thought I'd figure it out on my own.
➡️ We said from the very beginning we were going to go after AGI. At the time, it just seemed crazy and borderline irresponsible to talk like this. But it got all of the good young people's attention. We managed to gather a talented young team, even though we had fewer resources than DeepMind and other companies.
➡️ I don't rule out AGI coming as early as 2025. We have level-one AI-systems, chatbots. We got to level-two, reasoners, with the GPT-o1 release. Level-three is AI agents' ability to do longer-term tasks like multiple interactions with an environment, asking people for help when they need it, and working together. And I think we're going to get there faster than people expect. Four is innovators, like a scientist with the ability to explore a not well-understood phenomena. Level five is the sort of scale of a whole company that will be a powerful thing.
➡️ We will definitely arrive at abundant sources of energy, even if we don't get a big nuclear breakthrough. It’s just a question of when. It will feel like not nearly enough (of an issue) to our great-grandchildren and there's a big universe out there with a lot of matter.
➡️ There are no "adults in the room" that are going to magically tell you exactly what to do. And you just have to find your way. That was like a big unlock in life for me to understand. And there were many things that we were highly convinced and wrong about.
You can watch the whole interview here.
More on the topic:
🔘 Where did Sam Altman invest almost all of his money?
🔘 AI Trends from Y Combinator Accelerator: Five Startups of the Future
#news #interview @hiaimediaen