Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week speculated that “most people” would have assumed Artificial General Intelligence had arrived if they'd they seen ChatGPT in action before its arrival in 2020.

Mostly, the question of what AGI is doesn't matter. It is a term that people define differently. The thing that matters is the rate of progress that we have seen year for the last five years

The go-to keynote guest star made the claim at Snowflake’s annual jamboree in San Francisco this week, as he took part in an amicable chinwag with the data warehouse and analytics company’s CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy.

Altman was encouraged to speculate on when the tech industry would achieve the much-cited benchmark of artificial general intelligence by host Sarah Guo, an investor in AI companies. It turns out, he did not need much encouragement to overlook the fact that the concept itself ...