Comment by WhyOhWhyQ

2 days ago

I don't know what the moneyed insiders think OpenAI is about, but Sam Altman's public facing thoughts (which I consider to be marketing) are definitely oriented toward making it look like they are all-in on AGI:

See:

(1) https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity (June, 2025) - "We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be."

- " It’s hard to even imagine today what we will have discovered by 2035; maybe we will go from solving high-energy physics one year to beginning space colonization the next year; or from a major materials science breakthrough one year to true high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces the next year."

(2) https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations (Feb, 2025) - "Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity."

- "In a decade, perhaps everyone on earth will be capable of accomplishing more than the most impactful person can today."

(3) https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections (Jan, 2025) - "We started OpenAI almost nine years ago because we believed that AGI was possible, and that it could be the most impactful technology in human history"

- "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it."

(4) https://ia.samaltman.com/ (Sep, 2024) - "This may turn out to be the most consequential fact about all of history so far. It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there."

(5) https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge (Dec, 2017) - "A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075."