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The Promise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Altman and his team at OpenAI have been boldly pursuing the development of AGI, or artificial general intelligence, at a time when many in the field thought it was impossible. They faced criticism for this ambitious goal, but they were convinced that the underlying technology was advancing rapidly and that they could make significant progress.
The key insights that drove OpenAI were the belief that deep learning would continue to scale and improve dramatically, and that unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning were the keys to unlocking AGI. While many in the field were skeptical, Altman and his team were willing to bet big on these ideas.