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The AI Path

A route through models, abundance, multimodal systems, and the future arriving with its shoes already on.

6 waypoints 4 years Average severity 2.5 / 5
  1. 1
    Severity 4 / 5: Cave Inscription

    The Merge

    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....

  2. 2
    Severity 3 / 5: Cartographic Incident

    Reinforcement Learning Progress

    Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros....

  3. 3
    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    GPT-4o

    There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price)....

  4. 4
    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    The Gentle Singularity

    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. Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day....

  5. 5
    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    Abundant Intelligence

    Over the next couple of months, we’ll be talking about some of our plans and the partners we are working with to make this a reality....

  6. 6
    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    Sora 2

    We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that makes it easy to create, share, and view videos. This feels to many of us like the “ChatGPT for creativity” moment, and it feels fun and new....