OpenAI Restructures as For-Profit, Deepens Microsoft Partnership Amid AGI Pressure
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Hayden Field
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Summary
OpenAI is restructuring as a for-profit entity and deepening its partnership with Microsoft, intensifying pressure to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The article discusses the industry-wide race toward AGI, disagreements about its definition and feasibility, and the massive economic resources being devoted to this pursuit. The Microsoft deal adds further complexity to OpenAI's mission and structure.
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· 4 pulledOpenAI is ending October with a new for-profit structure, a new deal with Microsoft, and an entirely new level of pressure to achieve artificial general intelligence.
The generally accepted definition of AGI is an artificial intelligence system that equals or surpasses human cognitive ability.
But even as it's become a goalpost for the entire AI industry, people disagree on exactly what that looks like and if or when it may be possible.
An increasingly huge swath of the economy is devoted to finding the entirely hypothetical finish line of this expensive race.
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