Intelligence" at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Week in San Francisco, California, on November 16, 2023. The APEC Summit takes place through November 17. As research around AI models heats up, many are following the words of Sam Altman, who has become, in some ways, the face of this community.
Throughout, Han referenced Altman’s recent essay on AGI that I covered a couple of weeks ago. did it a lot, at a much higher scale, which I'm very grateful for. And then other people did after that. And there are other things that I've invested in that I'm really happy to have been able to support, and I think it would have been hard to get other people to do it.”
“There's this long history of people building more technology to help improve other people's lives,” he said. “And I actually think about this a lot: I think about the people that made . And I don’t know them. You know, many of them are probably long retired, but I am so grateful to them, and some people worked super hard to make at the limits of technology. I got a copy of that on my eighth birthday, and it totally changed my life, yeah, and the lives of a lot of other people, too.
With that in mind some of the top people have instituted what they call a five-stage system enumerating levels of progress in AI.