Microsoft and OpenAI’s Secret AGI Definition
Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!
Whether AGI has or hasn’t been “achieved” by AI developers has been a hotly debated topic due to its fuzzy and subjective definition. OpenAI has publicly described AGI as automated systems that outperform people at “most economically valuable work,” but nobody can agree on what that means.
Now we have clarity, thanks to this story Amir and I published this morning. For OpenAI and Microsoft, its largest investor and exclusive cloud provider, AGI has a very specific definition: the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.
This is especially important for both parties because once OpenAI reaches AGI, it can effectively end its arrangement with Microsoft, meaning that the tech giant won’t be able to use the technology OpenAI produces after that point.
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