OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gets a rethink on the AI term that OpenAI and Microsoft top execs didn’t agree upon
Artificial General Intelligence – AGI has been a point of contention between OpenAI and Microsoft. While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has publicly expressed his doubts over the technology, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives were earlier reported to be close to claim that their AI tool has reached the level. Now, Altman has said that the word AGI is “losing its relevance,” reports CNBC. The CEO was asked whether the company’s latest GPT-5 model moves the world any closer to achieving AGI during CNBC’s “Squawk Box” last week. Sam Altman replied saying “I think it’s not a super useful term”.
Sam Altman said the challenge with AGI is that different companies and people define it in different ways. One definition, he explained, is an AI that can do “a significant amount of the work in the world.” But this has problems, as the type of work people do keeps changing.
