In A New essay on his personal blogSam Altman, CEO of Openaai, said that the company was, among other things, for a “calculated budget”, including “strange sounding” ideas to “enable everyone on earth” and ensure that the advantages of technology are widespread .
“The historical effects of technological progress indicate that most metrics that are for the results of the healthcare system, the economic prosperity, etc. are required,” wrote Altman. “In particular, it seems as if the balance of power between capital and work could easily get confused, and this can intervene early.”
Solutions for this problem, such as the “calculation of Budget” by Altman, may be easier to beat than to carry out. Already, AI affects the job marketresulting Job cuts And Department of Downsizing. Experts have warned This mass unemployment is a possible result of the rise of AI technology if it is not accompanied by the right government policy and the changeover and upsky programs.
Not for the first timeAltman claims that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – which he defines as “(a AI) system, which can increasingly address complex problems at the human level in many areas. Regardless of what it accepts, this AGI will not be perfect, Altman warns in the sense that it can “require a lot of human surveillance and direction”.
“(Agi Systems) won’t have the biggest new ideas,” wrote Altman, “and it will be great in some things, but surprisingly bad in others.”
However, the real value of AGI will assume that these systems are massively performing, Altman claimed. Similar to the CEO of Openaai Rival Anthropic, Dario Amodei,Altman introduces thousands or even millions of hyper-capable AI systems that tackle tasks “in all areas of knowledge work”.
One could assume that this will be an expensive vision to realize. In fact, Altman found that “they can spend arbitrary amounts of money and achieve continuous and foreseeable profits in AI performance. Maybe that’s the reason why Openai is Reports in discussions To collect up to 40 billion US dollars in a financing round and has promises to spend up to 500 billion US dollars with partners in an enormous data network.
However, Altman also makes the case that the costs for the use “a certain AI” falls about 10x every 12 months. In other words, writing the border of AI technology does not become cheaper, but users get on the way to access to always capable systems.
Capable, inexpensive AI models of Chinese Ki -Startup Deepseek and others seem to support this term. There are Suggest evidence These training and development costs also fall, but both Altman and Amodei argued that massive investments will be obliged to achieve AGI-Level-KI-and beyond.
As Openaai, Agi-Level systems (provided that it can actually be possible), said Altman, that the company will probably “make some important decisions and restrictions in connection with AGI security that will be unpopular”. Openai Once pledged The fact that it would be committed to helping the competition with the “security -conscious” project “valuable” to help before building AGI before building up for security.
Of course, Openai intends to remain a non -profit organization. The company is in the Process of converting its company structure into a more traditional, profit -oriented org. Openai Reports The aim is to achieve sales of $ 100 billion by 2029, which corresponds to the current annual turnover of Target and Nestle.
This is the case that Altman’s goal, if it is built more, is to “trend more for individual strengthening” and at the same time “be used by authoritarian governments in order to be used by authoritarian governments through mass surveillance and the loss of autonomy to control ”. Altman recently said that he believes that Openai was on the wrong side of the story when it comes to open sourcing of his technologies. While Openai has open source technologies in the past, the company generally preferred a proprietary approach for closed source developments.
“AI will enter all areas of economy and society. We will expect everything to be smart, ”said Altman. “Many of us expect people to give people more control over technology than we in the past, including open sourcing, and to accept that there is a balance between security and individual strengthening that require compromises.”
Altman’s blog post is available to the AI Action summit of this week in Paris, which has already prompted other technical statements to sketch it Your own Visions For the future of AI.
In a footnote, Altman added that Openaai did not end his relationship with the term Agi to a close partner and investor Microsoft. Microsoft and Openai According to reports, a contractual definition of AGI -AI systems that can achieve profits of $ 100 billion -that enable Openai to negotiate cheaper investment conditions. Altman said, however, that Openai “expected to work with Microsoft in the long term”.
