Sam Altman Tells AI Fans To Lower Their Expectations As Rumors Swirl OpenAI Is On The Brink Of Superintelligence
Sam Altman has shut down online “hype” after rumors the company had achieved AGI behind closed doors went viral on X.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to calm the online hype surrounding his company.
On Monday, the tech boss took to X to quell viral rumors that the company had achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI).
“Twitter hype is out of control again,” he wrote in the post. “We are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it.” Altman said the company had some “cool stuff” coming up but warned fans to cut their expectations by “100x.”
Rumors that the company had achieved AGI, defined as a type of AI capable of understanding, learning, and performing any intellectual task that a human can do, have been gaining traction after some AI fans interpreted recent teasers posted by OpenAI employees as a sign the company has reached the much-hyped milestone.
OpenAI staffers, including Altman, have been trying to promote a series of new AI reasoning models. The AI company announced a slew of updates about the models last month, including that it was testing its next-gen model, o3.
In a post to his blog this month, Altman said he was confident the company knew “how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it.” He predicted 2025 may be the year we see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and said it was possible the world could see “superintelligence in a few thousand days.”
Rumors the company had already made the breakthrough behind closed doors were fueled by a post published last week by an AI writer who goes by the name Gwern Branwen. He claimed that OpenAI was on the edge of a breakthrough with its new reasoning models as they could produce data needed to train more advanced models.
“If you’re wondering why OAers are suddenly weirdly, almost euphorically, optimistic on Twitter, watching the improvement from the original 4o model to o3 (and wherever it is now!) may be why. It’s like watching the AlphaGo Elo curves: it just keeps going up… and up… and up…” he wrote in the post.
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AI Startup Sereact Lands €25 Million To Give Dumb Robots Better Brains
Stuttgart, Germany-based Sereact has secured €25mn to advance its embodied AI software that enables robots to carry out tasks they were never trained to do.
“With our technology, robots act situationally rather than following rigidly programmed sequences. They adapt to dynamic tasks in real-time, enabling an unprecedented level of autonomy,” said Ralf Gulde, CEO and co-founder of Sereact (short for “sense, reason, act”).
Early Spotify and Klarna-backer Creandum led the Series A round. Existing investors Point Nine and Air Street Capital also chipped in as did several prominent angel investors. These include former Formula 1 World Champion Nico Rosberg, ex-DeepMind product lead Mehdi Ghissassi, and past Skype exec Ott Kaukver.
Typically, robots — like those Roomba vacuum cleaners — are hard-coded. This means they follow exact instructions that enable them to repeat specific tasks.
Sereact’s embodied AI, however, acts like a robot’s brain, allowing them to analyze and even learn new jobs on the go. This is thanks to a machine learning technique called zero-shot visual reasoning, which allows AI to understand and interpret images without prior specific training on those types of images.
The model, dubbed PickGPT, makes robots smarter. It also means humans don’t have to pre-program them for each task, saving time for the companies that use them. “The opportunities here are endless and it’s great to see this kind of innovation coming from Europe,” said Johan Brenner, general partner at Creandum.
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