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An activist speaks out on his goals as he enters day nine of a grueling hunger strike in front of Anthropic's San Fran headquarters.

Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters

A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the "posthuman transition" — a mind-bending exercise.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity

By Victor Tangermann

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.

OpenAI Employee Says They’ve “Already Achieved AGI”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned.

OpenAI’s AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn’t ready For What It’s Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

By Victor Tangermann

An OpenAI safety worker quit his job, arguing in an online forum that he had lost confidence that the Sam Altman-led company will "behave responsibly around the time of [artificial general intelligence]," the theoretical point at which an AI can outperform a human.

OpenAI Safety Worker Quit Due to Losing Confidence Company “Would Behave Responsibly Around the Time of AGI”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before.

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new paper, researchers argue that emergent properties of LLM-powered AIs — widely seen as a step toward AGI — may just be "mirages."

Artificial Intelligence

Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

MIT professor Max Tegmark is stressed about the potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — and thinks you should be, too.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Professor Compares Ignoring AGI to “Don’t Look Up”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A serial AI investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes will become "god-like."

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

By Noor Al-Sibai

Geoffrey Hinton recently shared his thoughts on the state of AI in an interview with CBS. While enthusiastic about AI's progress, he's also urging caution.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft AI scientists believe that the OpenAI-built GPT-4 has shown "sparks" of near-human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Carmack — Doom creator, father of virtual reality, and former Meta employee — believes that we're on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Former Facebook Exec Says AI Will Soon Simulate the Human Brain

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Consciousness is one of the biggest questions within the field of artificial intelligence. To some it's science fiction; to others, it's a goal.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say They’re Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google DeepMind lead researcher Dr. Nando de Freitas boldly declared that "the game is over" and that as we scale AI, so too will we approach AGI.

Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai