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Mon. 01/06 – Sam Altman Is Already Moving Past AGI

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Brian McCullough

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4.7984 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Sam Altman says AGI isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Superintelligence. 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 smart TVs. And our first day wrap up of some of the cool things we’ve seen so far at CES.

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0:00.0

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

0:09.7

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

0:15.5

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,

0:22.9

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

0:27.9

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

0:36.9

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

0:39.2

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

0:43.9

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

0:50.5

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

0:54.6

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

1:01.4

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

1:08.0

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

1:11.9

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

1:16.7

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

1:21.3

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

1:25.8

and in turn, massively increase abundance and

1:28.1

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

1:33.3

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

1:37.3

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

1:42.6

care while still maximizing broad benefit and

1:45.1

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

1:50.5

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

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