OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is far from matching human performance, ‘but in terms of…’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that artificial intelligence (AI), even in its most advanced form today, remains far from matching human performance when it comes to sustained, long-horizon problem-solving. The tech CEO recently appeared in the podcast hosted by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, Altman acknowledged that systems like GPT-5 are “incredibly smart in a lot of domains” and “very superhuman at knowledge and pattern recognition, recall on these shorter-term tasks.” However, he stressed that the technology is still limited. “In terms of figuring out what questions to ask or to work on something over a very long period of time, we are definitely not close to human performance,” Sam Altman said.