Good morning. OpenAIproclaimed yesterday that the release of its GPT-6 Astra model may be regarded in the near future as the beginning of artificial general intelligence.
The company is almost certainly correct in one sense. We’re bound to look back on this period as the beginning of AGI. But in all probability, we’ve been in this technological stage for nearly a year, even though it was hard to notice given the relentless debate over the financial, economic and social dimensions of AI.
“Everyone has a different definition of AGI…it’s a gray, fuzzy thing. But I think when we look back people will think it’s about this time and about this model,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman said yesterday, per the FT.
There’s no standard definition of AGI, and that makes it hard to assess when it has arrived. Venture-capital investor Vinod Khoslatold me almost two years ago that he “describes it as the point at which AI can perform 80% of the work involved in 80% of the world’s economically valuable jobs.” While we may not clear that bar for some time, it feels more and more inevitable that we will before too long, and that’s why I think we’re beginning to enter the era of AGI. Businesses need to prepare now, thinking through how their people and organizations need to adapt.
Veteran tech entrepreneur Bill Nguyenargues that we began to enter the era of AGI months ago.
