OpenAI released its latest model, Astra, on 3 September, describing it as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model”, and its president, Greg Brockman, said the launch meant the world had entered a new era of artificial general intelligence.
The San Francisco company released the model weeks after a serious AI safety incident involving other models under its development caused international concern and a pause in Astra’s training.
Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, has long been talked about as a target for the AI industry. OpenAI’s own definition is “autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work”.
Brockman said: “If we fast forward a couple years, and we look back and say when was it really that AGI was created, I think it’s going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model.”
He added: “I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.”
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