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Open AI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be just “thousands of days” away from creating artificial “superintelligence.”
Altman made the claim in a personal blog post on Monday, declaring that the world is now at the “dawn of the Intelligence Age.”
“This may be the most significant fact in history: superintelligence could be within a few thousand days! It may take longer, but I am confident we will get there,” Altman wrote.
Current AI like ChatGPT are large language models that analyze huge amounts of data to provide responses and reactions, but a “superintelligent” AI would have greater cognitive abilities than humans and the ability to iteratively improve itself.
Altman argues that continued investment in more chips and computing power is key to establishing a widespread infrastructure for such technology.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI “superintelligence” is less than a decade away. (Chona Kassinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“If we want to put AI in the hands of as many people as possible, we need to make computing cheap and abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don't build enough infrastructure, AI will become a very limited resource in warfare, and will mostly be a tool of the rich,” he said.
“We need to act wisely, but with confidence. The dawn of the Intelligence Age is a momentous development with enormous complexities and enormous risks. It's not entirely positive, but the upside is so great that we owe it to ourselves and our future to figure out how to navigate the risks before us,” he continued.
In the letter, former and current OpenAI developers expressed concern that without regulation, the race to develop artificial intelligence could lead to disaster. (Jaap Arrians/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Altman's statements came after a new tech startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced it had raised $1 billion to fund the development of safe artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence system.
Sutskever and fellow OpenAI veteran Daniel Levy, who was previously Chief AI Officer at Apple Daniel Gross.
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“We launched the world's first Straight Shot SSI Lab with one goal and one product: Safe Superintelligence,” the company posted on social media in June.
Daniel Gross, Ilya Sutskever, and Daniel Levy, co-founders of AI company Safe Superintelligence, pose in this handout photo taken in August 2024. (SSI/REUTERS/Distributed via Reuters)
The company said it plans to achieve its goals through “innovative engineering and scientific breakthroughs” without getting bogged down in “management overhead and product cycles.”
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Investors include venture capital firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and SV Angel.
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Gross told Reuters it was important to find investors who aligned with their goals. Creating safe superintelligence.
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“It's important to us to be surrounded by investors who understand, respect and support our mission, which is to move headfirst into safe superintelligence, especially as we spend years of research and development before bringing a product to market,” Gross told the outlet.
Fox News' Steven Sorace contributed to this report.
