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During a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that AGI is "achievable with current hardware," a bold but largely meaningless claim.

Sam Altman Says AGI Is “Achievable With Current Hardware”

By Victor Tangermann

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

New Supercomputer Network Going Live in September Could Usher In AGI

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New Supercomputer Network Going Live in September Could Usher In AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former safety researcher William Saunders said that he didn't want to work for the "Titanic of AI," so he quit.

OpenAI Researcher Says He Quit When He Realized the Upsetting Truth

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a shocking admission about his ex-employer's plans for AGI.

Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start AGI Bidding War With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Geoffrey Hinton fears that we aren't doing enough to ensure the safe development of AI, with military applications posing the biggest threat.

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Godfather of AI Says There’s an Expert Consensus AI Will Soon Exceed Human Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

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

The CEO of Mistral, Europe's brightest new AI firm, is calling bull on the quest for AGI, which he says is akin to the desire to create God.

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Mistral CEO Says AI Companies Are Trying to Build God

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study suggests that advanced AI models are pretty good at playing dumb — which might have massive implications as they get smarter.

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AI Can Pretend To Be Stupider Than It Really Is, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is predicting that we will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2026.

Elon Musk Says That Within Two Years, AI Will Be “Smarter Than the Smartest Human”

By Victor Tangermann

In a legal response, OpenAI has pushed back against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's lawsuit against it, accusing him of making "incoherent" claims.

OpenAI Ridicules Elon Musk’s “Incoherent” Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

There may not be AGI yet, but as one of the leading experts in the theoretical field claims, it may get here sooner rather than later.

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Artificial Superintelligence Could Arrive by 2027, Scientist Predicts

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the interest of transparency, OpenAI has published its communications with Elon Musk amid his lawsuit against the company he helped found.

OpenAI Leaks Elon Musk’s Emails Showing He Was on Board With Cash Grab

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A renowned Chinese scholar has unveiled what he's calling the world's first AI child — and she might bring the technology into a new age.

Artificial Intelligence

Scholar Creates AI-Powered Simulated Child

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Zuckerberg is planning to spend billions of dollars to build and open-source human-level AI — and that idea is pretty freaky.

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Experts Terrified by Mark Zuckerberg’s Human-Tier AI Plans

By Noor Al-Sibai

Now that he's all but abandoned the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's pivot to artificial intelligence is in the spotlight.

Bored With the Metaverse, Zuckerberg Spending Billions on AI Chips

By Noor Al-Sibai

Altman's answer to the question of what core competences humans have over AI is as unconvincing as it is befuddling.

Sam Altman Stumped When Asked What Humans Will Do Better Than AI

By Victor Tangermann

Human-tier AI will change the world and jobs "much less than we think," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said while attending the World Economic Forum.

Sam Altman Says Human-Tier AI Is Coming Soon

By Victor Tangermann

Some OpenAI leaders reportedly may have gotten spooked by a powerful new AI the company was working on called Q star.

OpenAI’s Chaos Linked to Super Powerful New AI It Secretly Built

By Victor Tangermann

We're still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday.

Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI VP of global affairs Anna Makanju tried to calm angry staff in an internal memo, telling them they were in "intense discussions."

OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.

OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent interview, Altman described AGI as a "magic intelligence in the sky," which sounds an awful lot like a God.

Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God

By Victor Tangermann

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of OpenAI's cofounders warned years ago that if we don't program it right, AGI may treat humans like animals.

OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Worried AGI Will Treat Us Like Animals

By Noor Al-Sibai

The co-founder of Google DeepMind has for decades thought that AGI will be achieved by 2028 — and he's holding firm on that 50/50 bet.

Google AI Chief Says There’s a 50% Chance We’ll Hit AGI in Just 5 Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has created a new team whose whole job is heading off the "catastrophic risks" that could be brought on by artificial intelligence.

OpenAI Team Tasked With Stopping AI From Triggering Nuclear Armageddon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A leader in Google's artificial intelligence division in the United Kingdom says that AI poises a big threat to humanity like climate change.

Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind

By Sharon Adarlo

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

He might not helm Google anymore, but Eric Schmidt is absolutely still thinking like a tech CEO when it comes to AI.

Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate

By Noor Al-Sibai

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they were wiped out by superhuman AI.

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Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying “Great Filter”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man that wears a leopard print cowboy hat has a bold prediction: that AI will, in the next few years, replace up to 80 percent of jobs.

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Strangely-Dressed Expert Warns That AI Could Replace 80% of Jobs Soon

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants you to ignore the culture war — and wants you to focus on building safe AGI and fusion instead. As one does.

Sam Altman Says AGI Will Invent Fusion and Make the World Wonderful

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A one-time OpenAI researcher is sounding alarm bells about the prospect that artificial intelligence may bring about the end of humanity.

Ex-OpenAI Safety Researcher Says There’s a 20% Chance of AI Apocalypse

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a bombastic interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk made a bold claim about Google co-founder Larry Page that, unfortunately, is kind of believable.

Elon Musk Claims Google Co-Founder Is Building a “Digital God”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God

By Noor Al-Sibai

Years after shutting down its robotics division, OpenAI is now back in the game after raising funding for Norwegian robotics company 1X.

Oh God… OpenAI Is Working on a Humanoid Robot

By Frank Landymore

When it comes to the concept of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some seriously mixed feelings.

OpenAI CEO Predicted AI Would Either End the World as We Know It, or Make Tons of Money

By Victor Tangermann

One of the world's loudest AI e critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on it but to militantly put an end to it all — before it ends us.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI

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).

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today.

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Noam Chomsky: AI Isn’t Coming For Us All, You Idiots

By Noor Al-Sibai

If or when AIs becomes conscious, they're going to need rights, a pair of theorists argue — and the outcomes available to us aren't that great.

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Experts Urge Personhood Rights for the “Conscious” AIs of the Future

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

By Victor Tangermann

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

The doomsday prepper CEO of OpenAI has a strange reason for getting out of bed in the morning — and he thinks his company might "break capitalism."

OpenAI CEO Says His Tech Is Poised to “Break Capitalism”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Amid a maelstrom about AI consciousness, one MIT data scientist has highlighted that the concept might not be so far-fetched.

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MIT Researcher: Don’t Ignore the Possibility That AI Is Becoming Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's chief scientist has admitted what we all fear — that artificial intelligence may be gaining consciousness.

OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

This just in: Elon Musk is going to build the world's first sentient robots.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Robots Could Achieve AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat says that AI developers are creating God, and that humanity is in trouble because of it.

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute say that it might be impossible to rein in superintelligent AI that decides to turn on humanity.

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Scientists: It’d Be Impossible to Control Superintelligent AI

By Dan Robitzski

Governments should step in to prevent tech companies from developing malicious, evil, super-human AI, writes tech expert Wim Naudé.

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Expert: Governments Must Step in to Prevent Evil, Superpowered AI

By Dan Robitzski

Google has a history of absorbing DeepMind's AI technology into its own projects. To protect the goldmine of AGI, DeepMind has safeguards in place.

There’s a Power Struggle Inside Google to Control Superhuman AI

By Dan Robitzski

Whether it's to manage the world better than we do or give us new insight into how our own minds work, many experts agree we should make a human-level AI.

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Why Should We Bother Building Human-Level AI? Five Experts Weigh In

By Dan Robitzski

It's easy to fall for all of the marketing and hype, but artificial intelligence isn't half as robust as many want you to believe.

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You Have No Idea What Artificial Intelligence Really Does

By Dan Robitzski

When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think

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When Will We Have Artificial Intelligence As Smart as a Human? Here’s What Experts Think

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence will change life for the better. But there are reasons to be cautious as well. Five experts tell Futurism what most worries them.

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Five Experts Share What Scares Them the Most About AI

By Dan Robitzski

A new kind of artificial intelligence is able to recognize and remember objects in a way that's a lot more like humans and a lot less like algorithms.

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New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary — It Remembers

By Dan Robitzski

Humanity is terrible at planning for the distant future. If we build advanced artificial intelligence, it might save us from ourselves.

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Advanced Artificial Intelligence Could Run The World Better Than Humans Ever Could

By Dan Robitzski