Sam Altman predicts AGI next year

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🧠 THE AGI COUNTDOWN BEGINS - SAM ALTMAN

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims in a recent interview with YCombinator that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive in 2025, despite industry reports of slowing progress in language model development.

What's Altman's reasoning?

• Path to AGI is "basically clear"

• Believes it's now an engineering challenge, not scientific

• Supported by OpenAI researchers Noam Brown and Clive Chan

• Points to o1 reasoning model as key breakthrough

What about current progress?

• 'Orion' model showing smaller improvements over GPT-4

• Progress slower than previous generations

• Particularly noticeable in coding tasks

• New "Foundations Team" formed to tackle data scarcity

Why the confidence?

• OpenAI currently at level 2 of 5 on AGI scale

• o1 reasoning model shows new scaling potential

• Company prioritizing o1 development

• Altman maintains consistent timeline predictions

What challenges remain?

• High-quality training data scarcity

• Need for fundamental breakthroughs

• Scaling limitations to overcome

• Industry skepticism about timeline

This prediction could mark the most significant technological leap in human history, potentially transforming society as we know it - if Altman's ambitious timeline proves accurate.

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