OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has written an essay on his personal blog that spells out how his company intends to ensure that “everyone on Earth” will be able to leverage artificial general intelligence to fulfill their goals and expand their creativity.
Part of that plan entails “strange-sounding ideas” like giving everyone a “compute budget” to make certain that the benefits of AGI are widely distributed, he said.
“The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the metrics we care about (health outcomes, economic prosperity, etc.) get better on average and over the long-term, but increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and getting this right may require new ideas,” Altman (pictured) said. “In particular, it does seem like the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention.”
Altman defines AGI as “a system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields”, and he claims that we’re near to creating such systems. His claims may stoke concerns that it might ultimately lead to mass unemployment in many industries, and Altman admitted that its arrival is going to need “lots of human supervision and direction” to avoid this kind of disruption.
However, he insisted that AGI systems “will not have the biggest new ideas”, and that it will be “great at some things but surprisingly bad at others”.
The real value of AGI will be realized when we start running such systems at enormous scales. Altman said he envisions the possibility of millions of hyperscale AI systems that can tackle problems “in every field of knowledge work”.
Such systems won’t come cheap, Altman conceded. He noted that the progress seen so far in the AI industry shows that it’s possible to spend “arbitrary amounts of money and get continuous and predictable gains” in terms of its performance. That explains why OpenAI is currently said to be in talks over an eye-watering $40 billion funding round, just three months after closing on $6.6 billion . The company has also pledged, alongside partners such as Oracle Corp., to invest up to $500 […]
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