Artificial intelligence, so far, has not been all that intelligent. No AI program released to date can create anything; they just re-hash and re-arrange data they already have access to. They can’t come up with anything new on their own; no AI program is sentient or self-aware.
But one tech company CEO thinks that may be changing, and soon.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman says the world could be just “a few thousand days” from creating an artificial “superintelligence.”
Altman made the assertion in a personal blog post on Monday, declaring that the world is now at the “dawn of the Intelligence Age.”
“This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there,” Altman wrote.
Current AIs, such as ChatGPT, are large language models that…
