Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it
Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world. Recommended Video A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves. That has changed rapidly as AI development has accelerated.
- ▪Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world.
- ▪Recommended Video A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves.
- ▪That has changed rapidly as AI development has accelerated.
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Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world. Recommended Video A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves. That has changed rapidly as AI development has accelerated. “We are now, like, in the singularity,” Altman said in an interview on the Relentless podcast published over the weekend. “This is the moment.” It’s easy to see why he might have a point.
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