Forbes profiles Sam Altman, with a tease of Artificial General Intelligence

Sam Altman at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019. (Picture: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0)
AGI could be right around the corner, Altman teases in the interview, before Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says «I don’t think we are anywhere close,» and Altman backtracks.

What is for certain is that AI is getting more capable with every new model, and Altman says:

— We are heading toward a system that will be capable of doing innovation on its own, I don’t think most of the world has internalized what that’s going to mean.

On AGI, he says they would need «a lot of medium-sized breakthroughs. I don’t think we need a big one.»

Go read the full profile on Forbes, that takes you through Altman’s early career, with OpenAI as «destiny,» what he thinks about hardware — and how he plans to exit one day.