Supposedly this is the prediction of experts watching the progress of OpenAI’s models. For those who do not know, artificial general intelligence is the point at which artificial intelligence is as good as human in a wide range of areas. What we have now with ChatGPT is a chat bot, which can summarise and investigate but that is still a long way short of general intelligence.

But things are moving quickly, this is the robot built by Figure and powered by OpenAI technology. It already shows situational awareness and the ability to learn from situations.

It could be that predictions are right and before the year is out we will have an artificial general intelligence. What will happen then is an explosion of AI generated stuff will flood the internet… books, videos, music, humans looking to profit will direct the AI to generate a tidal wave of material. Discovery of the things that match your taste will become much more difficult. Human talent will become more rare.

We live in interesting times.