In a a A new essay on his personal blogSam Altman, Openai Director General, said the company is open to a “computer budget”, among other “strange” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot” and make sure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed.
“The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the metrics we care (health outcomes, economic prosperity, etc.) is improving on average and long term, but increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and acquires this right may require new ideas , ”Altman wrote.
Solutions to this problem, such as Altman’s “computer budget” concept can be more easily proposed than executing. Already, AI affects the labor marketresulting in jobs And Department is diminishing. Experts have warned This massive unemployment is a possible result of the increase in AI -The Techniko if not accompanied by the right government policies and programs on restore and raising.
Not for the first timeAltman claims that artificial general intelligence (ADI) – which he defines as “[an AI] A system that can deal with increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields ” – is close. Whatever form it takes, this act will not be perfect, Altman warns, in the sense that it may” require a lot of human overview and Direction ”
“[AGI systems] Will not have the greatest new ideas, “Altman wrote,” and will be great about some things, but surprisingly bad at others. ”
But the actual value of acting will come from the operation of these systems massively, said Altman. Similar to the CEO of Openai rival, Dario AmodeiAltman envisions thousands or even millions of hyper-capable AI systems handling tasks “in every field of knowledge.”
One might assume that there would be an expensive vision. Indeed, Altman observed that “you can spend arbitrary sums and get continuous and predictable gains” in AI activity. This may be why Openai is Reportedly in talks earn up to $ 40 billion in a financial circle, and has promised to spend up to $ 500 -billion with partners in a huge data network.
However, Altman also makes the case that the cost of using an “given level of AI” falls about 10x every 12 month. In other words, push the limit of AI technology is not cheaper, but users will gain access to increasingly capable systems along the way.
Capable, inexpensive AI models of Chinese AI -Equipment Deepseek and others seem maintain that notion. Is Evidence to suggest That training and development costs decrease, but both Altman and Amodei argued that Mass investments will be required to achieve action-level ai-and further.
As for how Openai plans to release AGI-level systems (assuming it can actually create them), Altman said the company is likely to make “some important decisions and boundaries linked to AGI security that will be unpopular.” Openai Once promised That it would be compromised to stop competing and starting to help any “value-aligned”, a “security conscious” project that is approaching to build action before it does, for taking care of security.
Of course, this was when Openai intended to remain non -profit. The company is in the process of converting its corporate structure into that of a more traditional, profitable org. Openai reportedly reportedly Aims to raise $ 100 billion incomes by 2029, equal to the current annual sales of a goal and Nestle.
Thus, Altman added that Openai’s goal because it builds more powerful AI will be “tend to tend more to individual empowerment” while discarding “AI used by authoritarian governments to control their population by mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.” Altman recently said he thinks Openai was on the wrong side of the story when it comes to open-supply of his technologies. While Openai has open technology in the past, the company has generally favored proprietary, closed source development access.
“Ai will insert all areas of the economy and society; We will expect that everything will be smart, “Altman said.” Many of us expect to give people more control over the technology than we have historically, including an open supply more, and admits that there is a balance between security and individual empowerment that will require compromises. “
Altman’s blog post comes before this week’s AI -AGO meeting in Paris, which has already encouraged other technical landmarks to sketch his own visions for the future of AI.
In a footnote, Altman added that Openai does not plan to end his relationship with a close partner and investor Microsoft sometime soon by the term acting. Microsoft and Openai reportedly had a contractual definition of acting – AI systems that can generate $ 100 billion in profits – which, would ever meet, would allow Openai to negotiate more favorable investment terms. Altman said, however, that Openai “is fully waiting for[s] be partnered with Microsoft in the long run. ”