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Investing.com -- OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research lab, has hinted at a significant announcement related to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) expected this year. The lab anticipates that the transformative impact of AGI will commence within the next few years, marking a significant milestone in AI development.
OpenAI has shifted its perspective on the development of AGI. Previously, the lab viewed the advent of AGI as a sudden leap from solving minor problems to addressing world-changing issues. However, the current outlook perceives the first AGI as merely a point in a continuum of increasingly useful systems.
The lab is developing AGI with the intent to positively transform lives across the globe. OpenAI believes that most challenges humanity faces could be overcome with a sufficiently capable AGI. This belief is rooted in the understanding that intelligence has historically driven most advancements for humanity, ranging from literacy and machinery to medicine.
The post-AGI world is difficult to predict, according to OpenAI. The lab suggests that the future world, transformed by AGI, could be more different from today than the present is from the 1500s. This transformation is expected to begin within a few years.
OpenAI also indicates that the ability to access and effectively utilize AGI could determine economic success. This could potentially lead to authoritarian regimes outpacing democratic ones if they harness AGI more efficiently.
In terms of safety, OpenAI emphasizes the need to engage with reality to ensure AGI’s safe development. This involves testing systems in the real world and incorporating the collective insight of all involved. The lab’s approach is to take incremental steps forward, continuously measuring and testing, rather than working backward from hypothetical end states.
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