Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Monday, January 6th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Sam Haltman says, AGI isn't cool. You know what's cool? Super intelligence. Why is nobody using

meta's AI profiles? Keep an eye on Zuck, is my advice. The big trend at CES so far is AI inside of smart TVs,

and our first day wrap-up of some of the cool things we've seen so far at CES. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. Sam Altman was making the rounds this weekend on his

personal blog. Sam said, open AI is, quote,

now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it, and that open

AI is thus turning its focus to superintelligence because of that, quoting Sam himself.

We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.

We believe that in 2025 we may see the first AI agents join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.

We continue to believe that iteratively putting great tools in the hands of people leads to great broadly distributed outcomes.

We are beginning to turn our aim beyond that to superintelligence in the true

sense of the word. We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future. With

superintelligence, we can do anything else. Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate

scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own,

and in turn, massively increase abundance and

prosperity. This sounds like science fiction right now and somewhat crazy to even talk about it. That's

all right. We've been there before and we're okay with being there again. We're pretty confident

that in the next few years, everyone will see what we see and that the need to act with great

care while still maximizing broad benefit and

empowerment is so important. Given the possibilities of our work, Open AI cannot be a normal

company, end quote. But what about being a normal company that makes money? In separate remarks,

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