Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, believes that the future of artificial intelligence will be marked by the emergence and growing popularity of personal assistants. They will become an integral part of everyday life and even replace smartphones.
In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Altman described the "killer application" for AI as a "super competent colleague" who knows absolutely everything about the user's life, every email and conversation. At the same time, the assistant will not "feel like an addition."
"What you really want is just a thing that will help you," Altman said.
He added that AI will be able to solve some tasks instantly, and for more complex ones, it will be able to go on a search. If necessary, he will return for clarifications.
Compared to OpenAI's current offerings like DALL-E, Sora, and ChatGPT, which Altman called "incredibly dumb," this will be a significant leap forward.
https://forklog.com/exclusive/ai/chto-takoe-chatgpt-i-dejstvitelno-li-on-tak-horoshThe need for new equipment
Altman is confident that in such a future, special devices will not be required, and applications will work in the cloud.
"I don't think it will require new equipment," he said.
At the same time, the head of OpenAI admitted that users will probably "be glad" to see a specialized gadget. At the same time, Altman does not consider himself an expert in the field of hardware.
"I am very interested in consumer equipment for new technologies. I am an amateur who likes it, but it is very far from my competence," he said.
The problem of training data
One of the problems on the way to creating powerful AI agents is the lack of training data. OpenAI looks through online archives, newspapers and blogs to train its models.
However, most of the Internet has already been scanned, and access to private databases is difficult. Nevertheless, Altman is optimistic about this issue.
"I believe, but I'm not sure that we will find a way out of this situation [...]. People are direct proof of the existence of alternative ways [of learning]. And I hope that we will find them," Altman believes.
The race to create an AGI
Altman suggested that in the race to create general-purpose artificial intelligence, several different versions of superintelligence will appear, which will cope better and worse with different tasks.
"We will have to overcome a certain threshold of computing power. But even in this case, I would not be so sure," he added.
When asked if Altman knows the timing of the release of GPT-5, he briefly replied: "Yes." However, the head of the startup did not go into details.
Recall that in April, the gpt2 chatbot language model appeared on the LMSYS platform, which is associated with OpenAI.