OpenAI 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. And after Tuesday’s news, there’s a new entrant in the race: Microsoft itself.
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