OpenAI's GPT-5 is the company's most advanced model, yet it does not meet the criteria for artificial general intelligence (AGI). True AGI is defined as AI that can reason like humans, a goal OpenAI aims to achieve. According to Sam Altman, while GPT-5 represents a significant improvement, it lacks critical capabilities, such as autonomous learning. Debates on the timeline for achieving AGI persist, with some experts estimating it may take decades. However, Altman remains optimistic, viewing GPT-5 as a promising step towards realizing AGI.
"This is clearly a model that is generally intelligent, although I think in the way that most of us define AGI, we're still missing something quite important, or many things quite important," Altman told reporters during a press call on Wednesday before the release of GPT-5.
"One big one is, you know, this is not a model that continuously learns as it's deployed from the new things it finds, which is something that to me feels like AGI. But the level of intelligence here, the level of capability, it feels like a huge improvement," he said.
Altman said that looking back at OpenAI's previous releases, GPT-5 is still a step in the right direction. "If I could go back five years before GPT-3, and you told me we have this now, I'd be like, that's a significant fraction of the way to something very AGI-like," he said on Wednesday's call.
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