OpenAI is launching its own podcast where Sam Altman claims that coding with o3 gives people their next big “wow moment.” He suggests that while his AI won’t exactly cure cancer, it will make researchers more productive. Of course, critical questions are missing.
Summary
- Definitions of AGI based on cognitive capabilities have been "well surpassed," superintelligence is a system capable of "autonomous discovery of new science or greatly increasing the capability of people using the tool to discover new science".
- Project Stargate is a "half-trillion-dollar global effort" to finance and build compute infrastructure, with the first "gigawatt scale" Abilene site representing 10% of the initial commitment, with future hopes for advanced nuclear power.
- OpenAI vowes to "fight" efforts to compromise user data and stating that modifying the language model's output for advertising would be a "trust destroying moment."
- Altman speculates that current hardware was "designed for a world without AI," suggesting future devices will be "way more aware of its environment" and context, enabling new interaction methods beyond screens and typing.
